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G0180 covers physician certification of a Medicare home health plan of care. Here's the operational workflow, the 60-day boundary that trips up billing staff, and the vendor and PHI exposure the certification packet creates.
Carl B. Johnson
A single low-acuity cold visit touches six systems and at least three vendors. Here's how practices handle cold ICD 10 code selection, documentation, and the records and business associate exposure that comes with high-volume winter visits.
Carl B. Johnson
Muscle weakness codes drive therapy authorizations, denials, and patient disputes. Here's how administrators run the workflow — and the privacy and vendor obligations that ride along with every claim.
Carl B. Johnson
A patient satisfaction survey program moves PHI to at least one outside vendor, usually more. Here is how practice administrators scope the BAA, limit the export file, route complaints, and stay out of the online-review trap.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations breakdown of CPT 99397 — what the code descriptor covers, why Medicare handles it differently, how front desks prevent surprise bills, and the privacy and vendor obligations a preventive-visit workflow creates.
Carl B. Johnson
Smoking cessation CPT codes look like a simple two-code decision until you trace where the documentation, the session counter, and the referral data actually go. Here's the operational and privacy workflow.
Carl B. Johnson
How practices decide, document, and defend telehealth modifier selection — plus the records-handling and vendor obligations that ride along with every virtual visit.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of the 99397 CPT code: eligibility checks, Medicare's routine-physical exclusion, modifier decisions, and the business associate chain every preventive claim travels through.
Carl B. Johnson
Privileging decides what a clinician may do inside your practice — and the file behind that decision pulls in charts, external reviewers, and vendors. Here is the workflow, the records handling, and the BAA line.
Carl B. Johnson
What the 99349 CPT code description covers, how established-patient home visit levels get documented, and the device, vendor, and BAA exposure that comes with sending charts into somebody's living room.
Carl B. Johnson