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A practice-operations walkthrough of the 83013 CPT code description: who performs the analysis, what your CLIA certificate must cover, which vendors touch the result, and where the BAA gaps show up.
Carl B. Johnson
A workflow guide for administrators and billing staff on documenting, routing, and protecting the records behind knee injection claims — including the vendor and BAA exposure most practices miss.
Carl B. Johnson
97602 is a per-session wound debridement code that rarely generates its own payment line — but the wound photos, vendor hand-offs, and records requests behind it create real HIPAA exposure. Here's the operational playbook.
Carl B. Johnson
Developmental screening billed under 96110 creates PHI before the visit even starts — on tablets, in vendor scoring portals, and in text-message links. Here's the operational and privacy workflow your practice needs.
Carl B. Johnson
Suture removal looks like a two-minute visit and bills like a minefield. Here's how practices sort global periods, code selection, outside records, wound photos, and the vendors that touch the claim.
Carl B. Johnson
A B12 shot takes ninety seconds and generates two code lines, a supervision question, a payer coverage check, and a paper trail that can disclose a diagnosis to the wrong household member. Here's the operational workflow.
Carl B. Johnson
An operations guide to the 99211–99215 family: who decides the level, what documentation supports it, how to answer a payer audit without over-disclosing, and which vendors in the billing chain need a BAA.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to Medicare vaccine coverage: the Part B and Part D split, roster billing mechanics, registry reporting, and the vendor agreements a vaccine program quietly creates.
Carl B. Johnson
How family history codes move from your intake packet into claims, analytics tools, and vendor systems — and the HIPAA genetic information rules that follow them the whole way.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations breakdown of the 99213 RVU: what the three components are, who on your staff owns the annual update, and why RVU productivity reporting is a PHI problem before it is a revenue problem.
Carl B. Johnson