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The 99000 CPT code covers specimen handling and conveyance to an outside lab. It rarely pays — but the workflow behind it moves PHI out your back door every day. Here's how to run it cleanly.
Carl B. Johnson
G0506 is the add-on code tied to the chronic care management initiating visit. Here's how the workflow actually runs in a practice — and where the vendor, consent, and records-handling risk sits.
Carl B. Johnson
A tracheostomy claim moves through your coders, your clearinghouse, a DME supplier, and often a home health agency. Here is how to route it, document code selection, and keep the operative note from traveling further than it should.
Carl B. Johnson
Preoperative clearance generates a claim, a records packet, and a vendor trail. Here's how administrators handle pre op ICD10 sequencing, minimum necessary, and the BAAs that clearance workflows quietly create.
Carl B. Johnson
The 33 modifier tells a commercial payer a service was delivered as preventive care under ACA guidelines. Here is the operational workflow, the denial patterns, and the vendor and records-handling obligations that follow.
Carl B. Johnson
Vision screening creates a chart entry, a claim line, and often a record on a device vendor's server. Here's how administrators handle the 99173 CPT code, the documentation behind it, and the vendor and records obligations it drags along.
Carl B. Johnson
Preparticipation exams create three problems at once: a coding decision with no dedicated code, a self-pay conversation, and a disclosure to a third party. Here is the operational workflow, role by role.
Carl B. Johnson
Complex chronic care management billing creates a monthly time log, a shareable care plan, and at least three vendor relationships that need a BAA. Here is how to run it without creating an audit or privacy problem.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to how 99213 gets selected, documented, audited, and disclosed — and the BAA, minimum necessary, and right-of-access obligations attached to every claim your office sends.
Carl B. Johnson
CPT 95251 pays for interpreting continuous glucose monitor data — but the data lives in a vendor's cloud portal, not your chart. Here's the operational workflow, the documentation packet, and the BAA and records-access obligations that come with it.
Carl B. Johnson