Medical Billing & Coding Study Guide: Learn to Code with Real Examples and Pass the CPC Exam on Your First Try

by Megan Carter, Virtual Voice (Narrator), Brightwell Prep

You don't pass the CPC by memorizing codes. You pass by learning to find them.Have you read an entire chapter and still couldn't code one real case? Does a one-page patient note turn every tiny detail into a trap? You're preparing for a $425 exam that about half of people fail on the first try, and you deserve a guide that actually teaches you how.

Here is the truth most medical coding guides won't tell the CPC is open-book, but they never show you how to use the book. walls of text, no real examples, sometimes outdated codes or AI filler. You feel "sooo dumb," when the problem was never you. It was the material.

This guide is built the opposite way. It teaches you to actually code, line by line on real cases, with one method you can run on any chart. Written by a coder who passed, with every code current for 2026.

Inside, you'll learn how the real thing with the included online exam simulator: seven full-length timed mocks, 700 questions on a true four-hour clock, scored by section, so exam day feels like your eighth mock, not your firstTurn any real patient chart into the right code with the Case-to-Code Method, so you stop guessing and start decidingWork through real ICD-10-CM, CPT, and HCPCS examples, the line-by-line practice other books skipTame E/M, the beast, and the modifiers that quietly cost everyone pointsFinish 100 questions in four hours with the 4-Hour Exam-Day Strategy, so time never runs out on youTest yourself on paper with two full-length practice exams in the book, every answer explained, including why the other three choices are wrongTab your manuals the legal way, and read an honest take on pay, the job, and AI
Picture exam you open a question, run the method, and the code is simply there. Picture the CPC after your name, a remote coding job, and a real income you earned from home, close to the people who matter.

This is the guide that teaches you to code, not just read about it. Scroll up, click Buy Now, and start your first-try plan today.

Inside, you'll also find the rest of your free CPC Exam-Day Kit: six printable tools to keep beside your manuals, from a 30-day study plan to a mock score tracker..

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Published July 13, 2026

About the author

Megan Carter is an award-winning artist and freelance nature photographer. In her spare time she likes to rummage through flea markets and junk shops. Her hobbies include woodworking, metal detecting and genealogy.

She has written a number of books as either Megan Carter or Frankie J. Jones.