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HIPAA Compliance

CPT Code 76881: Ultrasound Billing and PHI Workflow

Extremity ultrasound billed under CPT 76881 generates a permanent image, a written report, and a designated record set entry. Here is how practice administrators handle the documentation, the payer scrutiny, and the vendor exposure that comes with the probe.

Carl B. Johnson

— 20 Mar 2026

Immunization Billing

CPT Code 90656: A Practice Admin's Billing & Privacy Guide

Flu season turns your practice into a high-volume data operation. Here's how CPT code 90656 moves through claims, registries, reminder vendors, and employer clinics — and where the privacy exposure actually sits.

Carl B. Johnson

— 20 Mar 2026

HIPAA Compliance

Medical Billing Code 99213: Practice Operations Guide

A workflow guide to how medical billing code 99213 gets selected, documented, transmitted, and audited — and the privacy, records-request, and vendor obligations that ride along with every claim.

Carl B. Johnson

— 20 Mar 2026

HIPAA Compliance

Primary Hypertension ICD 10: A Practice Admin Guide

Hypertension codes touch nearly every chronic-care claim your practice submits — and every coding vendor, clearinghouse, and query log that touches them is a privacy exposure. Here's the operational and vendor view.

Carl B. Johnson

— 19 Mar 2026

HIPAA Compliance

98016 CPT Code Description: Workflow, Consent, BAAs

A practice-operations breakdown of CPT 98016: the descriptor elements your billers must verify, the consent line your auditor will look for, and the vendor agreements every check-in channel requires.

Carl B. Johnson

— 19 Mar 2026

ICD-10 Coding

URI ICD10 Coding: Workflow, Records, and Vendor Risk

Upper respiratory infection visits are the highest-volume encounter in most primary care and urgent care practices. Here is how administrators run URI ICD10 coding and documentation cleanly, and where the privacy, records, and vendor obligations attach.

Carl B. Johnson

— 19 Mar 2026

CPT Coding

99244 CPT Code Definition: A Practice Admin's Guide

What the 99244 CPT code definition actually requires, why Medicare won't pay it, and how the consultation report back to the requesting provider becomes a disclosure your practice has to account for.

Carl B. Johnson

— 18 Mar 2026

CPT Coding

87637 CPT Code Description: Billing and Privacy Ops

87637 is the multiplex molecular respiratory panel code. Here's how practice administrators document code selection, verify CLIA and QW requirements, and control the four vendors that touch every result.

Carl B. Johnson

— 18 Mar 2026

HIPAA Compliance

99358 CPT Code Description: Billing, Records, Vendors

A practice-operations breakdown of prolonged non-face-to-face E/M reporting: what the code descriptor says, how Medicare treats it, how to document time defensibly, and which vendors touching that data need a BAA.

Carl B. Johnson

— 17 Mar 2026

HIPAA Compliance

96375 CPT Code Description: Practice Operations Guide

A practice-operations breakdown of the 96375 CPT code description: what the add-on descriptor requires from your documentation, who owns each step, and how infusion records move through your vendor chain without leaking.

Carl B. Johnson

— 17 Mar 2026