Billing and Coding Specialist Prep – Week 1 CBCS Portal Work

Billing and Coding – Study Guide 3.0

Each week, you will access the Certified Billing and Coding Specialist study guide work through the NHA Portal. You are expected to complete the list of activities in each weekly Certificate Portal Work assignment. These activity modules are consecutive – meaning on-going or back-to-back. Each time you log in, the NHA portal will begin wherever you have left off. To learn more, read the steps offered in this document or view the video tutorial on navigating the NHA portal (3:14).

Complete this list of activities:

Ø CBCS Study Guide 3.0 Lesson – Module 3: Coding and Coding Guidelines

Ø Overview

Ø Abstracting Health Information

Ø Clinical Documentation

Ø CPT Codes

Ø ICD-10 Codes

Ø HCPCS Level II

Ø Modifiers

Ø Generate and submit the study guide report for the weekly assignment in Blackboard (see instructions included in this document)

Portal Directions to Follow

Note: You may wish to save this document for future reference as you proceed in the course as a helpful reminder on how to access content and generate reports.

Portal Login

NHA portal log in screen

Note: Each time you log in to resume your work, the NHA Portal offers a Continue Where You Left Off button

Continue where left off button highlighted

Locating My Study Materials

The content you need to complete for each week is found in the My Study Materials area of the portal

my study material highlighted on screen after logging in

Use the Access button to find the correct module for the week and select from the drop-down menu

Note: You are only completing the assigned module for the course

arrow pointing to the study guide and module drop-down menu displaying options

Choose the Lesson option

Note: Later in the course when you work on a Practice Test you will navigate to that differently

launch lesson button highlighted to access weekly content

From the left-hand navigation choose the assigned weekly activities to complete from the Topics and Case Studies

o Select the + sign to reveal the content

o Time Spent in your current session displays in the upper right-hand corner of the screen

time spent info highlighted on module home page

Weekly Report

Each week you must generate and submit this report to your instructor via Blackboard

o Use the View Report button from your portal home page

view report button highlighted with drop-down menu showing different module options

Your report opens in PDF format and can be saved and printed. Choose the download and save option.

o The report will contain information about the time you have spent in your Study Guide

module report option to download in pdf highlighted with arrow

o Title and save your PDF file using this file naming convention, CourseID_LastNameW1Cert (ex. HP212b_SmithW1Cert), attach to the assignment dropbox in Blackboard, and submit.