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Modifier 25 draws payer scrutiny, and scrutiny means records requests. Here's the operational workflow, the role assignments, and the vendor and minimum-necessary obligations that come with it.
Carl B. Johnson
How practices document and bill punch biopsies, plus the specimen-tracking, vendor, and records-request obligations that ride along with every skin biopsy claim.
Carl B. Johnson
Wound care claims travel with photographs, measurements, and third-party product records. This guide covers the operational mechanics of wound care CPT code selection and documentation, then makes the privacy, records-release, and vendor obligations explicit.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to the circumcision CPT code family: who assigns the code, how consent and newborn records get filed, and which vendors touch the claim.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of the 99345 CPT code description — new patient home and residence visits — plus the place-of-service, documentation, and vendor-agreement problems that follow your clinicians out the door.
Carl B. Johnson
A single Tdap dose touches your EHR, your clearinghouse, your registry interface, your inventory ledger, and your recall texting vendor. Here is how administrators keep the coding clean and the disclosures defensible.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to CPT 99490: the 20-minute time floor, the consent script, the audit-ready log, and the business associate exposure that comes with outsourced chronic care management.
Carl B. Johnson
Preoperative clearance requests move charts, labs, and EKGs across four organizations in 72 hours. Here is how administrators run the ICD 10 preop workflow — and where the privacy and vendor exposure actually sits.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of Tdap immunization billing: product versus administration codes, payer quirks, registry disclosures, records requests, and the vendors that touch your immunization data.
Carl B. Johnson
CPT 99080 covers special reports and forms — the paperwork basket that quietly generates unbilled labor and PHI disclosures. Here's how to run the workflow, set fees, and keep your vendors covered.
Carl B. Johnson