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The 99215 RVU drives payment, provider compensation, and payer scrutiny at the same time. Here is how administrators verify the value each January, document code selection defensibly, and close the BAA gaps a coding audit exposes.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to pre-procedural clearance encounters coded with Z01.818 — documentation, role assignments, records routing to surgical facilities, and the vendor agreements that traffic requires.
Carl B. Johnson
There is no standalone CPT code for a vaginal exam. Here is how practices actually determine and document code selection for pelvic and vaginal examinations — and the privacy, records, and vendor obligations that ride along with the claim.
Carl B. Johnson
The 99421 CPT code turns your patient portal into a billing system of record. Here's how practices document cumulative time, handle consent, and manage the vendor and records-access obligations that follow.
Carl B. Johnson
What the 99347 CPT code description actually requires, how practices document code selection for home and residence visits, and the PHI, device, and vendor exposures that come with sending clinicians into patients' living rooms.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to inpatient CPT codes: the documentation chain from rounding list to claim, who owns each handoff, and the vendor and records-handling exposure hospital-based billing creates.
Carl B. Johnson
Claim data built from medical CPT codes is PHI the moment it leaves your practice. Here's how the charge-capture chain actually works, who touches the file, and where the privacy and vendor obligations attach.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of how legacy "DPT" chart entries get resolved into current immunization coding — and the records-access, registry-reporting, and vendor obligations that ride along with every vaccine charge.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of the 99491 CPT code description: who's time counts, how the monthly log becomes part of the record, and why outsourced chronic care management puts a business associate on your vendor list.
Carl B. Johnson
G0108 covers individual diabetes self-management training in 30-minute units. This guide walks administrators through referral rules, time documentation, group-class privacy exposure, and the vendor agreements a DSMT program quietly requires.
Carl B. Johnson