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Consultation CPT codes generate more records traffic than almost any other encounter type. Here is how administrators run the workflow, document the request-and-report loop, and keep the vendor chain covered by BAAs.
Carl B. Johnson
How to run Medicare wellness visits without denials or privacy exposure: eligibility checks, documentation elements, health risk assessment vendors, and the BAAs your practice probably hasn't signed.
Carl B. Johnson
A workflow guide for administrators: how excisional biopsy code selection gets documented, which vendors touch the specimen and the pathology report, and where the BAA and records-request obligations land.
Carl B. Johnson
Q0091 looks like a two-minute billing question and turns into a vendor, records, and minimum-necessary question. Here's the workflow, the frequency rules, and the privacy exposure your practice actually owns.
Carl B. Johnson
A skin biopsy generates a code selection, a specimen, a requisition, a courier handoff, and a pathology report. Here's how administrators keep the coding defensible and the PHI trail contained.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of modifier 25: the workflow that produces a defensible claim, the edits that generate denials, and the records and vendor obligations triggered the moment a payer asks for 30 charts.
Carl B. Johnson
Punch biopsies generate specimens, requisitions, pending logs, path reports, and appeal packets — every one of them PHI. Here's how administrators run the 11104 workflow without leaking it.
Carl B. Johnson
G0181 is a monthly, time-based, non-face-to-face home health care plan oversight code. Here is how practices track the 30 minutes, close the calendar month cleanly, and handle the PHI that piles up from the home health agency along the way.
Carl B. Johnson
The 99204 RVU drives compensation math, payer contracts, and audit exposure — and the data behind it moves through more vendors than most practices have on their BAA list. Here is how to run it.
Carl B. Johnson
How practices document, bill, and safeguard continuous glucose monitoring encounters — including the vendor portal accounts and reader devices that turn a billing workflow into a privacy exposure.
Carl B. Johnson