hipaa.app updates, status and compliance updates
A single Pap specimen touches your MA, a courier, a reference lab, a clearinghouse, and a portal vendor. Here's how the coding actually works — and the records, EOB, and BAA obligations that ride along with it.
Carl B. Johnson
Nursing facility rounding creates PHI that never touches your office network. Here's how administrators should route documentation, control census lists, and close the BAA gaps behind subsequent nursing facility visit billing.
Carl B. Johnson
E/M coding touches your scribes, coders, RCM vendor, and every payer audit response. Here is how to run the workflow, assign the roles, and close the privacy gaps that open when outside parties read your notes.
Carl B. Johnson
The codes behind Medicare wellness visits aren't CPT codes at all — and the health risk assessment feeding them is one of the largest PHI intake pipelines in a primary care practice. Here's the operational and privacy build.
Carl B. Johnson
Lipoma excision claims fail for administrative reasons: missing measurements, undocumented depth, unsigned pathology. Here's the operational workflow, and the vendor and records-access exposure that comes with it.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to what CPT 99213 represents administratively, who in your practice touches it, and the records-handling and vendor obligations that ride along with every level-three claim.
Carl B. Johnson
Advanced Primary Care Management pays monthly with no time threshold — which shifts the compliance burden from stopwatches to consent records, vendor contracts, and care plan access. Here's the operational build for administrators.
Carl B. Johnson
What the 15853 CPT code description covers, how add-on billing and global periods change your workflow, and the records-handling and vendor exposure that suture-removal visits create.
Carl B. Johnson
In-office fingerstick glucose testing looks like a two-minute task at the front counter. Operationally it pulls in a CLIA certificate, a waived-test log full of PHI, payer bundling edits, and at least one connected device vendor you may not have a BAA with.
Carl B. Johnson
The most-billed established patient office visit code also generates the most audit letters, vendor touchpoints, and records requests. Here is how to run the workflow without leaking PHI or losing the documentation trail.
Carl B. Johnson