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Resolved AAPC Exam Changes for 2022

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Lori

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We're pleased to announce upcoming changes that will ensure AAPC certification exams continue to be a world-class assessment for individuals and organizations seeking gold-standard validation.

Effective January 2022, all AAPC exams will be four (4) hours with questions excluding the CPPM@ and CPB@ exams, also set to four (4) hours but with 135 questions. The online CPC@ exam will remain a 2 part exam—two (2) hours will be given to answer 50 questions in each session.

This decision reflects our efforts to (continuously improve our testing methodology. After years of careful planning, hundreds of beta testers, many months of analysis and evaluation by our AAPC Exam Committee, and comprehensive audits by an independent third-party psychometric firm, an optimal number of questions and time has been determined to validate proficiency.

This change will be effective January 1, 2022.


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More details on 2022 exam changes.

AAPC certification exams are designed to provide certifications for our members to unequivocally demonstrate that the certified individual possesses the critical skills for the position the certification represents. To do this, AAPC must maintain rigorous exams with proven validity and reliability.
AAPC’s exam creation and review process ensures the validity of AAPC exams, so that consumers can have confidence that an AAPC certification represents that an individual possesses the critical skills and the expertise the intended position requires. A psychometric review indicates AAPC exams exhibit good to excellent levels of reliability. According to Alan Mead, Ph.D. (psychometrician), “All consumers of AAPC exam scores can have confidence in the pass/fail classifications made using the AAPC exams.”

As part of AAPC’s exam enhancement and improvement initiative and review of the length of AAPC exams, a benchmark analysis was performed, which compared AAPC exams to medical certification exams and IT certification exams. The benchmark analysis revealed an opportunity to reduce the length of AAPC exams and their administration time. Psychometric analysis confirmed that shorter exams can also exhibit good reliability and content validity.

By shortening AAPC exams, while maintaining the validity, we were able to ensure the same rigorous content as currently provided.
Additional benefits of shortening AAPC exams include ensuring adequate time is given to the examinees, reducing obstacles for proctors, and opening an opportunity to provide additional types of questions to further reflect the critical abilities for the intended job.

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