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A practice-operations walkthrough of how diabetic foot exam CPT and HCPCS claims get built, documented, and audited — and the BAA, gap-list, and records-request exposures that ride along with them.
Carl B. Johnson
What the 87426 CPT code describes, how practices verify CLIA scope before billing it, and the vendor, public health reporting, and results-delivery obligations that come attached to in-house antigen testing.
Carl B. Johnson
A walk-in with staples from another hospital triggers a coding decision, an outside-records request, and at least two vendor exposures. Here is the operational workflow for administrators and billing staff.
Carl B. Johnson
There is no ICD-10-CM code titled "personal history of hypertension." Here is how practices handle the gap operationally — and why the answer touches your problem list, your release-of-information desk, and your vendor contracts.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to how well-woman visits get abstracted, billed, and disclosed — including the statement, EOB, chaperone, and vendor exposures that follow a single line on the claim.
Carl B. Johnson
Pap coding decides whether a patient owes nothing or owes a specimen-handling fee, and it feeds a result that lands in the portal on a Friday night. Here is how administrators build the workflow.
Carl B. Johnson
Skin tag removals look like small encounters and generate outsized administrative risk: cosmetic-versus-covered determinations, ABNs, clinical photographs, and a vendor chain nobody inventoried. Here's the operational workflow.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to running Annual Wellness Visits: eligibility clocks, health risk assessment vendors, outreach lists, documentation retention, and the BAA gaps that show up when you outsource the visit.
Carl B. Johnson
Prostate MRI generates a coding decision, a prior authorization disclosure, an imaging record request, and at least four vendor relationships. Here is how practice administrators keep all four straight.
Carl B. Johnson
A single RSV dose touches your EHR, clearinghouse, state registry, inventory system, and recall vendor within minutes. Here is how practices document code selection and control the privacy exposure that follows.
Carl B. Johnson