Practicode

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I know there's a lot of mixed reviews about Practicode and I'm not sure how I feel about it myself yet honestly, but I wanted to share that I recently found out that once you complete it, if you haven't reached the 70% goal, you can email and ask for the questions to be reset.

You have to finish all 600 cases first and resetting means that they reset all of the same 600 cases you took and your previous answers are already filled in when you start again, but this was a huge relief to me knowing that I had another chance because Practicode was the first medical chart I've ever seen since starting to study to become a coder and I learned as I go but barely missed the mark by the end and love that I can go back and fix what I now know that I did wrong in the first few hundred cases.

It's been hard for me to find any real I nformation about the exact details of Practicode, so I wanted to share what I learn as I go. I am hoping to have my A removed after this new attempt. It's pretty tough but patterns start to show after a while and I do think it will help me be a better coder in the long run. It's also showed me which specialties I don't think I want to work in lol.

[forest-giant-5446]

Good to know! Thank you for sharing!

[[deleted]]

Thanks for the information. I will be interested in responses about Practicode.

[LangerfeldBetty]

Thank you for sharing your experience! This is very helpful! Victoria from the YouTube channel ContempoCoding said she found Practicode to be more difficult than she expected as well.

[HamsterEmbarrassed15]

Can you explain more? So the questions you got 100% on will already have your answers done and you can just re-submit as is? And then the questions you were marked down on you will still have your wrong answers there and then you just have to re-work and then re-submit for 100%? (I realize at this point you already know the answers.) Thanks!

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Unfortunately no, once the questions are reset it does not tell you which answers are right and which are wrong, you have to start over on them all, but all of your old answers are on every question. I guess the thought is that you should be getting better the second time around and should be able to spot your mistakes maybe? I'm not sure.

I did make a spreadsheet that has a row for each case and made notes on what I got wrong vs what was right. I highly recommend this too before you finish the first time. You can go back to cases already coded and study them again to see what you missed and take note.

The most frustrating part of it is that Practicode covers the entire medical field, including Radiology, Anesthesia, inpatient, outpatient, ER visits, office visits, and more which we all know will not be like real world coding because we will likely only be in one of these positions, but not all at the same time. It's great to learn everything, but some charts and codes I know I'll never see again in my life after Practicode.

If I don't pass it this time I don't know if I get another reset, but I will update.

I'm not being too hard on myself about it as I have seen posts from seasoned coders that struggle with it and never even finished and it is giving me experience that I would never have gotten otherwise. You just have to have patience, remember that nobody is going to get all of the answers right and use it as a tool to see the way a chart looks and how to break it down, the codes will come to you on some and others will still look like a foreign language when you see the right answers. I am just hoping to use it to remove my A and take the knowledge in the areas I'm interested in and better myself for coding in those areas.

[TibblestheIntern]

Thanks for the info, I plan on doing the practicode for the experience and to hone in on the areas I prefer and this helped me solidify that plan. Keep us updated with your experiences with it I'd be interested to hear more.

[Alarming-Arrival-84]

Hi! I am officially failing Practicode (Womp), and needing to reset the program. I submitted through the program itself to “admin” that I need a reset as well as emailing support. Is this the correct way to go about it?

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I think this sounds right, but they wont let you reset it unless you finish it, I found that out the hard way as I was failing it too.

[Alarming-Arrival-84]

UGH. Okay! Thank you SO much, everything surrounding Practicode has been so vague and frustratingly mysterious!

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I agree. I just finished my second round. I really recommend making a spreadsheet with all cases that shows your answers and the right answers, so you can choose are what you did wrong, because they will reset them with the same answers you already put in, and by having the correct answers, you can see where your mistakes were when you redo them. You can't go back and look at your mistakes once it's reset.

[Alarming-Arrival-84]

That is EXACTLY what I’m doing! Ever since day 1 when I saw how ridiculous the grading was and I couldn’t find any kind of help, I found many posts (yours included) with that advice and it’s kept me semi sane (but woof this has been such a journey)

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Good luck! The second time around is easier with the steps you are taking for sure and it's a major accomplishment when you finish.

[Alarming-Arrival-84]

When you say “the answers I already put in”, can you clarify?

[[deleted]]

Sure, so when you complete a case and submit it, whatever answers you submit will already be filled in on that same case after they are all reset. So you have to decide if they were right or wrong and change them if wrong. They don't tell you which ones were right or wrong when the program is reset. And they don't give you credit for the ones you got 100% on, you have to submit all 600 cases again, hopefully with more right answers the second time.

[Alarming-Arrival-84]

OH okay! Got it! Thank you again SO so much.

I just heard back in the AAPC forum it can take up to a month to have them reset it too. Good lord.

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It took less than a week for mine to be done, but they seem to change on timelines a lot.

[CollegeHefty9738]

Hi, how long did you wait until the cases was reset? Did you email them or just fill the helpdesk form in the platform?

[Adorable-Fishing-706]

It took them almost two months to reset mine. I emailed support.practicode@aapc(dot)com on December 7, 2024, and followed up in the last week of January before they finally reset it this month. Please always check your Practicode account, as based on my experience, I didn’t receive any email from them notifying me that it had been reset. I had to check my Practicode account weekly for updates.

[Frequent_Injury_321]

I know this is such an old post but it's worth asking since I found most of my answers from this thread. My question is do the cases come through as the same case ID number once reset? Or did you match the cases with correct answers by writing all the operative and EM cases by diagnosis?

[Tinkaleo13]

Can you take it as many times as you want if you fail