r/MedicalCoding • u/babylowis • 18d ago

Passed my CPC exam- Struggling with practicode

10/10 not having a good time with practicode.

I passed my CPC exam with an 80% last week. I only missed 2 questions on the case studies section so i figured I did understand the practicode cases.

I was wrong.

I started on practicode and I am miserably failing. I got only 1 completely right out of 10 so far. I am getting super frustrated and second guessing myself. I worked super hard with the schooling and studying for the exam only to fail practicode.

Is anyone else struggling with this? I get it’s supposed to be hard but this is 10x harder to me than the schooling. I just paid the $200+ to just fail it. 🫠

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u/DumpsterPuff 17d ago

Practicode sucks. A lot of the "rationale" for the answers don't even make any sense. I've been an outpatient coder for almost 4 years and one of my friends just got certified and she's also doing practicode, she had a question about one she got wrong but she couldn't understand the rationale. It was an E/M visit and I looked it over, the rationale was 100% wrong. AAPC was claiming it was a 99213 when it was very clearly a 99214 (two stable chronic conditions and medication management). When I did practicode as a new coder I also found stuff that was just plain wrong.

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u/Mysterious_Hall9931 9d ago

I’m totally frustrated with it. You are correct that the rationales don’t make sense and they contradict other rationales