Certified Billing and Coding Specialist (CBCS) Examination (NHA)
Credential Source Contact Information
- Source Company Name:
- National Healthcareer Association
- Contact:
- Jennifer Dehn, Certification Specialist
- Phone:
- 913661.5562
- Email:
- jennifer.dehn@nhanow.com
- Website:
- www.nhanow.com
Credential Contractor
- Credential Contractor:
- Same as source
- Contact:
- Same as source
- Phone:
- Same as source
- Email:
- Same as source
Test Administration
- Test Site:
-
- School: Online
- Testing facility
- Paper & Pencil
- No
- Can the instructor take this test?:
- Yes
- Number of Test Items:
- 100 scored, 25 pretest
- Time Allowed (minutes):
180
- Passing Score (percent):
390/500 scaled
- Cost Per Test:
$125
- Test Specifics:
https://www.nhanow.com/certification/nha-certifications/medical-billing-and-coding-specialist-(cbcs)
- Additional information:
- Updated CBCS exam requires the following manuals on exam day:
- CPT Professional Edition-2021
- HCPCS Level II-2021
- ICD-10-CM-2021.
- If learners fail to bring these manuals with them on testing day, they will not be allowed to take the exam and will forfeit their registration fee.
- Please read the FAQs and the Candidate Handbook (Pages 44-45) for more information on this and other changes.
- FAQs: https://fs.hubspotusercontent00.net/hubfs/1430252/campaigns/2021/CBCS/CBCS%20FAQ_.pdf
- Study guide and practice assessments are available for purchase and have been developed to align with the CBCS Test Plan.
- Contact credential source for necessary documents to become a testing site.
- Candidate Handbook: http://nhanow.com/docs/default-source/pdfs/handbooks/nha-candidate-handbook4d5de88694956aeb8535ff0f00b0a11e.pdf
- A candidate who is scheduled to graduate from an accredited high school or GED program (or other equivalency test recognized by the candidate’s state or residency) may take the certification exam and receive a provisional certification up to 12 months before graduation as long as all certification eligibility requirements are met. A provisional certification is a placeholder and is intended to allow candidates to take certification exams as near to the time they complete their training even though they have not yet met the eligibility requirement of holding a high school diploma or its equivalency needed to receive a standard (full) certification.
- Updated CBCS exam requires the following manuals on exam day:
Possible Preparatory Courses
Timing
- Multiple test sessions:
- No
- Time of day
- Yes
- Order of tasks
- No
- Planned breaks during test
- Yes
- Is extended time an option for the test-taker?
- No
Setting
- Test location
- Yes
- Adaptive or special furniture
- No
- Special lighting
- Yes
Presentation
- Written directions accompanying oral directions
- Yes
- Specific verbal prompts
- No
- Visual aids
- No
- Amplification equipment
- No
- Headphones, earmuffs, or earplugs
- Yes
- Large-print test
- No
- Braille test
- No
- Read-aloud test
- Yes
- Audio test
- No
- Interpreting/transliterating testing directions
- No
- Interpreting/Transliterating the test
- No
Response
- Enlarged copy of the answer document
- No
- Communication board or choice cards
- No
- Examiner records responses
- Yes
- Brailler
- No
- Word processor or word processor with speech-to-text
- No
- Augmentative communication device
- No
- Word prediction software
- No
- Spelling aids
- No
- English dictionary
- No
- Dictation using a recording device
- No
- Dictation to a scribe
- No
- Read back student response
- No
- Calculator and arithmetic tools
- No
- Calculator with additional functions
- No
- Math aids
- No
- Dry erase board
- No
- Additional writing implements
- Yes
- Audio test
- No
- Bilingual dictionary
- No
- Dictation to a scribe
- No
- English dictionary
- No
- Examiner records responses
- No
- Flexible Schedule
- No
- Is extended time an option for the test-taker?
- No
- Multiple test sessions
- No
- Read-aloud test
- No
- Test directions delivery
- No
- Visual aids
- No
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