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How practices actually select, document, and defend preventive visit coding — plus the records-request, minimum-necessary, and business associate problems that annual-visit programs create for privacy officers.
Carl B. Johnson
Preventive visits generate more denials, more billing disputes, and more records requests than almost any other encounter type. Here's the operational workflow, the role assignments, and the privacy exposure your front desk creates before the patient sits down.
Carl B. Johnson
Annual Wellness Visits generate more vendor touchpoints than almost any other encounter in a primary care practice. Here's how to run the eligibility check, document code selection defensibly, and keep the health risk assessment data inside your BAA perimeter.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of Medicare annual wellness visit requirements — eligibility checks, supervision rules, HRA vendor exposure, documentation, and the records requests that follow.
Carl B. Johnson
How to run Medicare wellness visits without denials or privacy exposure: eligibility checks, documentation elements, health risk assessment vendors, and the BAAs your practice probably hasn't signed.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to running Annual Wellness Visits: eligibility clocks, health risk assessment vendors, outreach lists, documentation retention, and the BAA gaps that show up when you outsource the visit.
Carl B. Johnson
Advance care planning generates a time-based billing record, a consent note, and a legal directive document — three artifacts with different retention, access, and vendor implications. Here's how to run the workflow without creating an audit or privacy problem.
Carl B. Johnson
The codes behind Medicare wellness visits aren't CPT codes at all — and the health risk assessment feeding them is one of the largest PHI intake pipelines in a primary care practice. Here's the operational and privacy build.
Carl B. Johnson
The phrase "initial wellness visit" maps to two different Medicare benefits with different eligibility windows — and the health risk assessment behind it quietly turns three or four vendors into business associates. Here is the operational and privacy workflow.
Carl B. Johnson
Staff searching for the CPT code for an annual wellness visit usually land on the wrong code set. Here's the billing mechanics, the eligibility checks that stop denials, and the vendor and records obligations the AWV quietly creates.
Carl B. Johnson