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How practices determine new versus established patient status, where multi-site groups get it wrong, and the records, refund, and vendor obligations that follow every registration decision.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to CPT 36415: how the collection fee is billed, what your staff must document at the draw, and which lab-adjacent vendors belong on your BAA list.
Carl B. Johnson
A working guide to the modifier 25 description for practice administrators: who does what on a same-day visit, how documentation gets reviewed, and what happens to PHI when a payer asks for 40 charts.
Carl B. Johnson
Chronic care management billing under 99490 creates time logs, consent records, and third-party vendor access to your EHR. Here is how administrators build the workflow and close the privacy gaps it opens.
Carl B. Johnson
Advance care planning billing runs on a documented time statement, a consented conversation, and a paper document that ends up in three systems. Here's how administrators build the workflow and control the privacy exposure it creates.
Carl B. Johnson
Refill requests move through more hands and more vendors than almost any other transaction in your practice. Here's how administrators handle medication refill ICD 10 documentation, minimum necessary, and the BAAs behind the refill queue.
Carl B. Johnson
Audio-only visits generate a coding decision, a documentation trail, and a vendor problem all at once. Here is how practice administrators handle all three without guessing.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to the 99401 CPT code: time documentation, modifier decisions, patient financial notice, and the privacy exposure created when counseling claims travel through clearinghouses and EOBs.
Carl B. Johnson
An operations guide to using an AAPC RVU calculator for productivity reporting and fee analysis — including when the spreadsheet you paste into it becomes PHI and when a vendor belongs on your BAA list.
Carl B. Johnson
An operations guide to the elevated blood pressure ICD 10 code family for administrators: who documents the reading, which vendors touch the claim, and how records and amendment requests get handled.
Carl B. Johnson