hipaa.app updates, status and compliance updates
The MIPS submission window closes March 31. Every quality measures export is a PHI disclosure — here is how administrators handle registries, chart chases, and vendor contracts without over-sharing.
Carl B. Johnson
Two competing code families, a modifier that broadcasts behavioral health status, and a vendor stack nobody put on the BAA list. Here is how practice administrators keep telehealth billing and telehealth privacy from drifting apart in 2026.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to the PHQ-9 CPT code: which codes practices evaluate, what documentation survives an audit, and why every digital screening tool on your intake tablet needs a BAA.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of the 99342 CPT code description — new-patient home and residence visits — plus the device, vendor, and records-request exposure that home-based care adds to your compliance program.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of Medicare vaccine coverage: how Part B and Part D claims route differently, who touches the PHI along the way, and which of those vendors belongs on your BAA list.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations breakdown of modifier 51 vs 59 — what each one does to a claim, who in your office decides, and the records-handling and vendor obligations that come with every appeal packet you send.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to how gyn exam ICD-10 code selection actually happens, and the confidential-communications, minimum-necessary, and vendor-contract problems that follow the claim out the door.
Carl B. Johnson
99441 was deleted from CPT effective January 1, 2025, but it still shows up in superbills, templates, and payer denials. Here's the operational cleanup, plus the vendor and records obligations attached to every phone visit.
Carl B. Johnson
What CPT 90480 covers, how practices document and support it, and the registry, records-request, and business associate obligations that attach to every COVID-19 vaccine dose your staff administers.
Carl B. Johnson
CPT 99443 was deleted at the start of 2025, but the definition still drives appeals, audits, and records requests on older dates of service — and the phone infrastructure behind it still creates BAA gaps.
Carl B. Johnson