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CPT 99423 pays for patient-initiated portal work, but only if your practice can prove consent, cumulative time, and a seven-day window. Here is the administrative workflow — plus the records and vendor obligations that come attached.
Carl B. Johnson
RVUs drive your fee schedule, your provider compensation model, and a monthly data export that almost certainly contains PHI. Here is how the math works and where the privacy obligations attach.
Carl B. Johnson
Pre-op clearance requests generate coding decisions, outbound records packets, and vendor exposure in the same 48 hours. Here's how to run the workflow without creating a breach or a denial.
Carl B. Johnson
Newborn encounters create a claim, a chart, and a privacy problem all at once. Here is how practice administrators should run the CPT 99460 workflow, from hospital census to clean claim to vendor agreement.
Carl B. Johnson
There is no CPT code for anxiety — CPT describes services, ICD-10-CM describes the condition. Here's how practices document code selection, and where behavioral health claims create privacy, records, and vendor exposure.
Carl B. Johnson
Cyst excisions look simple until the claim comes back denied and the chart can't support it. Here's how administrators build the documentation, coding, and vendor workflow around removal of sebaceous cyst CPT reporting.
Carl B. Johnson
Transitional care management runs on two clocks — two business days for contact, seven or fourteen days for the visit. Here is the operational workflow, plus the records-handling and vendor obligations most practices miss.
Carl B. Johnson
Developmental screening generates claims, questionnaires, scores, and a vendor trail. Here's how administrators run 96110 workflows cleanly and cover the privacy obligations the screening tool creates.
Carl B. Johnson
A urine pregnancy test is a two-dollar strip that creates a claim, a lab record, a statement, and a confidentiality problem. Here's how practice administrators handle the coding mechanics and the privacy fallout.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of how Pap specimen coding, lab hand-offs, portal release timing, and vendor agreements fit together — written for administrators and billing staff, not clinicians.
Carl B. Johnson