AAPC 2014 Regional Conference

American Association of Professional Coders

2014 Regional Conference

August 28-30, 2014

Chicago, IL

http://www.aapc.com/medical-coding-education/conferences/regional/chicago-2014/ AAPC's conferences provide the most relevant and timely education in the medical coding and billing industry. Choose from dozens of education sessions, each approved for CEUs, and network with hundreds if not thousands of other coders and health care industry professionals in one place and over a few days. If you need to keep up with what's going on in the medical coding, billing, reimbursement and auditing world, you need to be attending these events.

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