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A practice-operations walkthrough of the 99235 CPT code: the 8-hour threshold, the documentation your coders need, and the records-handling and BAA obligations that follow every same-day admit-and-discharge claim.
Carl B. Johnson
G2211 carries 0.33 work RVUs and a documentation trail that follows your claim into audit. Here's the operational workflow, the front-desk script, and the vendor and PHI exposure administrators need to close.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of how staff document, route, and bill two-phase abdominal CT studies — and the records-access and vendor obligations that ride along with every image.
Carl B. Johnson
A single foreign body removal generates an operative note, wound photos, a specimen, a claim, and half a dozen vendor handoffs. Here's how administrators keep the 10120 CPT code clean on both the billing side and the privacy side.
Carl B. Johnson
There is no single combination code for hypertension and diabetes. Here is how your practice documents and sequences these encounters, and how the resulting diagnosis data moves through payers, coders, and audit vendors.
Carl B. Johnson
Telehealth and telemedicine are not interchangeable words on a claim form, in a policy manual, or on a vendor list. Here's how the distinction changes your billing documentation, your BAA inventory, and your records-request workflow.
Carl B. Johnson
A search for the ICD 10 code hyperbilirubinemia returns a family of codes, not one. Here is how practices document code selection, keep mother and newborn charts separate, and manage the lab, device, and billing vendors that touch that data.
Carl B. Johnson
A payer records request for 40 low-level visits is where most practices discover their 99211 workflow was never written down. Here is the operational and privacy side of the code, for the people who answer the letter.
Carl B. Johnson
Inpatient consults create three operational problems at once: payer-specific code selection, documentation that lives in someone else's EHR, and vendor access to hospital PHI. Here is how to run all three cleanly.
Carl B. Johnson
RVU stands for Relative Value Unit — the CMS building block behind your fee schedule and most physician compensation formulas. Here's how the math works, where the data lives, and which vendors need a BAA before you hit export.
Carl B. Johnson