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STD screening claims are ordinary billing work with unusually high privacy stakes. Here's how practices structure code selection, documentation, EOB handling, and vendor oversight so a routine screen doesn't become a complaint.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to running Anthem telehealth visits: eligibility verification, documentation habits that survive an audit, platform BAAs, and how virtual visit records get handled in a right-of-access request.
Carl B. Johnson
Office visit CPT code selection runs through your EHR, your billers, your clearinghouse, and often an outside coding consultant. Here is the operational workflow, the documentation trail, and the HIPAA obligations that ride along with every claim.
Carl B. Johnson
Tobacco cessation counseling is one of the most under-captured services in primary care — and one of the stickiest data points in the chart. Here's how administrators handle 99406 documentation, payer rules, and the vendor and disclosure exposure that follows.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of onychomycosis coding, documentation, and payer audits — and the nail photographs, lab routing, and vendor agreements that create privacy exposure your coders never see.
Carl B. Johnson
The GA modifier is a claim-level assertion that a signed waiver-of-liability notice exists in your records. This guide covers the front-desk workflow, retention timelines, records-request obligations, and the vendors who handle those signed forms.
Carl B. Johnson
Transitional care management under 99495 runs on a two-business-day contact clock and a 30-day service period. Here's how practices staff it, document it, and keep the discharge data feeding it inside the BAA perimeter.
Carl B. Johnson
Manufacturers submit prior-year payment data by March 31 and CMS publishes it June 30. Here is the review workflow, the records you keep, and the vendor and BAA exposure that rides along with every rep relationship.
Carl B. Johnson
An operations guide to hypertensive heart disease ICD-10 coding for administrators: documentation workflows, provider query steps, vendor inventory, minimum-necessary limits, and the records-request obligations that follow.
Carl B. Johnson
Modifier 93 tells payers a service happened over the phone. It also tells auditors exactly where to look — and quietly makes your VoIP system a business associate. Here's the operational workflow.
Carl B. Johnson