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A practice-operations walkthrough of how the cortisone injection CPT code families work, who owns charge capture, which edits drive denials, and the six places injection PHI ends up.
Carl B. Johnson
An operations guide to CPT 98014 and the rest of the audio-only telemedicine E/M family: what your documentation has to capture, why Medicare claims may not use these codes at all, and which vendors just became business associates.
Carl B. Johnson
Your provider rounds at three nursing facilities and the notes come back by fax, text, and a mobile app nobody vetted. Here's how to run CPT 99308 billing without creating a records or vendor problem.
Carl B. Johnson
Suture removal looks like a two-minute visit and behaves like a compliance test. Here is how practices sort global periods, transfer-of-care modifiers, outside records, wound photos, and the vendors touching all of it.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to the 11402 CPT code: what documentation drives code selection, which vendors touch the resulting records, and where the BAA and minimum-necessary obligations actually bite.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of the 95249 CPT code description — the patient-owned CGM startup service — covering workflow ownership, documentation, payer frequency limits, and the vendor portals holding your patients' glucose data.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to biopsy coding workflows — specimen logs, modifiers, anti-markup rules, pathology report access requests, and which partners in the specimen chain actually need a Business Associate Agreement.
Carl B. Johnson
What the 99253 inpatient consultation descriptor says, how practices document code selection, and the records-handling and business associate exposure that consult workflows create.
Carl B. Johnson
What the 90658 CPT code description covers, how practices document vaccine code selection, and the registry, records-request, and vendor obligations every flu shot creates.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to HFpEF coding workflows, the documentation chain behind the claim, and the vendor and records-handling exposure that comes with retrospective chart review.
Carl B. Johnson