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Wound care generates codes, photographs, and vendor relationships in equal measure. Here is how administrators structure documentation, assign roles, and close the privacy gaps that dressing changes create.
Carl B. Johnson
A plain-English operations guide to CMS HCC coding for practice administrators — the chart-chase workflow, who signs the BAA, retention clocks, and the disclosure rules that apply when a health plan asks for 200 charts.
Carl B. Johnson
A payer audit letter arrives asking for 22 charts, all level-4 established patient visits. Here's the operational, records-handling, and vendor-contract work that sits behind every 99214 claim your practice submits.
Carl B. Johnson
What the 99051 CPT code description actually says, how practices build the documentation trail behind it, and the privacy and vendor obligations that come with running extended hours.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of depression screening codes, the intake workflow around them, and the records-access, minor-consent, and business associate obligations that attach the moment a score is recorded.
Carl B. Johnson
CPT 99496 turns a hospital discharge into a 30-day operational obligation with three overlapping clocks. Here is the workflow, the role assignments, and the records and vendor exposure most practices miss.
Carl B. Johnson
Every claim your practice submits moves diagnosis and procedure codes to third parties. This guide covers who assigns codes, who may see them, when a patient can stop them, and which vendors need a signed BAA.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of the 99244 CPT code: the request-render-report trail, payer variation, and the records and vendor obligations that attach to every consultation report you send.
Carl B. Johnson
A rapid antigen test takes 15 minutes and creates at least five records your practice has to govern. Here's the 87811 CPT code description, the documentation trail behind it, and the vendor and disclosure decisions that follow.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of how DTaP claims are built, documented, and reported — plus the registry disclosures, records requests, and vendor agreements that follow every immunization line item.
Carl B. Johnson