Auditing: Inpatient Coding Microcredential (AIC) Microcredential
Auditing: Inpatient Coding
The Auditing: Inpatient Coding Microcredential is intended for practitioners who conduct quality assurance and accuracy reviews, and/or oversee the work performed by other medical coding professionals to increase compliance with healthcare regulations. This microcredential is intended for individuals who conduct inpatient coding audits working in acute care hospitals, integrated hospital systems, and long-term care facilities.
About the Assessment
Assessments are administered through our partner vendor, Questionmark through and internet-based testing portal and are available 24 hours a day, 7 days per week. (Browsers that support the Questionmark platform include Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Firefox, and Safari.)
Candidates have three hours to complete the assessment. The assessment contains a total of 65 questions (50 scored and 15 unscored questions randomly distributed throughout the assessment). The purpose of unscored questions is to gather data on the performance of these questions. Unscored questions do not count towards a candidate's score. Question types used for the assessment may include matching, multiple-choice or multiple-select, true/false, select-a-blank, pull-down lists, ranking, and may include scenarios presented as images to assess practical application of skills.
Individuals seeking the Auditing: Inpatient Coding Microcredential should be proficient in:
Practice
Clinical documentation
Abstracting data elements
Communication
Reporting