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G0179 pays your certifying practitioner for reviewing and signing a home health recertification the patient never attends. Here's the 60-day workflow, the documentation your MAC expects, and the PHI flows most practices never mapped.
Carl B. Johnson
POS 10 tells payers the patient was at home during a telehealth visit. That one digit changes your reimbursement, your documentation burden, and the amount of location data your practice now stores.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to the 99348 CPT code description: what the descriptor covers, what your billing staff needs in the note, and the device, vendor, and records-request exposure a home visit program creates.
Carl B. Johnson
An operations guide to the HIPAA forms your practice actually runs on — what makes an authorization valid, which clocks each request starts, and where your form vendors create exposure.
Carl B. Johnson
A preoperative clearance request touches your schedulers, your coders, your fax line, and at least four vendors. Here is the workflow, the code-selection structure, and the disclosure limits that keep it clean.
Carl B. Johnson
How practices document and route palliative care ICD-10 coding, where that data travels after submission, and the records and vendor obligations it creates for administrators.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to CPT code 99386: the pre-visit checks your front desk runs, how documentation gets split when a problem comes up, and the privacy and vendor exposure a preventive visit creates.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to CPT code 20550: what documentation your coders need, how the drug line and modifiers get handled, and which vendors touch the claim once it leaves your building.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of physician dictation: transcription and ambient AI vendors, audio retention, records requests that name the recording, signature timing, and the BAA gaps that show up in audits.
Carl B. Johnson
What the 99387 CPT code description actually says, how front-desk and billing staff verify new-patient status and payer rules, and the vendor and records-handling exposure a preventive visit creates.
Carl B. Johnson