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An operations guide to hypertensive CKD ICD-10 coding for practice administrators: the two-code pattern, documentation trail, payer chart chases, and the vendor and records-release exposure that follows.
Carl B. Johnson
Pre-op clearance requests arrive by fax, portal, and phone call — and each one creates a coding decision and a disclosure event. Here's how to run both cleanly.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to nursing facility visit coding: charge capture from rounds, place-of-service accuracy, census reconciliation, and the BAA and minimum-necessary questions that rounding workflows quietly create.
Carl B. Johnson
Work-related and disability exams generate reports that employers, carriers, and attorneys all want. Here's how to run the encounter, route the record, and cover the vendors who touch it.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to cervical cancer screening coding workflows, frequency tracking, results routing, and the vendor and privacy exposure that comes with a recall list full of gynecologic data.
Carl B. Johnson
Time-based E/M selection creates new documentation duties, new audit-log exposure, and new business associates. Here's how administrators build a defensible workflow and close the vendor gaps it opens.
Carl B. Johnson
Telehealth codes touch four systems and at least three vendors before a claim leaves your building. Here's how administrators assign place of service, modifiers, and documentation duties — and where the privacy exposure hides.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of the immunizations covered by Medicare Part B — coverage buckets, roster billing, registry disclosures, and the vendor agreements your flu clinic quietly depends on.
Carl B. Johnson
How practices actually select, document, and defend preventive visit coding — plus the records-request, minimum-necessary, and business associate problems that annual-visit programs create for privacy officers.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to preoperative examination coding, the clearance-request workflow that surrounds it, and the vendor and records-handling obligations administrators absorb when preop documents move between offices.
Carl B. Johnson