HIPAA Compliance

Telehealth CPT Codes 2025: What Your Practice Still Owes

The 2025 telemedicine code set is still generating claims, appeals, and audit requests in 2026. Here is how practice administrators handle code selection documentation, place-of-service privacy exposure, and the vendor agreements telehealth quietly requires.

Carl B. Johnson

— 3 Mar 2026

HIPAA Compliance

Q0091 CPT Code Description: A Practice Operations Guide

Q0091 covers obtaining and conveying a screening Pap specimen for Medicare patients. Here is how practices document code selection, survive frequency denials, and control the PHI that leaves the building with the specimen.

Carl B. Johnson

— 2 Mar 2026

HIPAA Compliance

G0438 CPT Code: Running Annual Wellness Visits Right

G0438 is the initial Medicare Annual Wellness Visit code — once per lifetime, heavily audited, and built on a health risk assessment that most practices collect through a third party. Here's the operational and privacy workflow.

Carl B. Johnson

— 2 Mar 2026

HIPAA Compliance

11102 CPT Code: Practice Workflow and Vendor Risks

Skin biopsy billing pulls protected health information through pathology labs, couriers, results portals, and clearinghouses. Here's how administrators should map the operational and privacy workflow behind the 11102 CPT code.

Carl B. Johnson

— 2 Mar 2026

HIPAA Compliance

Telemedicine ED Programs: An Ops and Privacy Playbook

A practice-operations guide to telemedicine ED coverage: who owns the record, which vendors need BAAs, how coding decisions get documented, and what breaks when the encounter lives in two systems.

Carl B. Johnson

— 2 Mar 2026

HIPAA Compliance

Pelvic Exam CPT Code: Billing, Records, and Vendors

A practice-operations guide to how clinics determine and document coding for pelvic and well-woman exams — plus the records-handling, EOB, and vendor exposures that follow every one of those claims.

Carl B. Johnson

— 1 Mar 2026

HIPAA Compliance

Medicare Health Risk Assessment: A Practice Ops Guide

The Medicare health risk assessment touches your front desk, your intake vendor, your scanning workflow, and your payer disclosures. Here's how to run it without creating a records problem.

Carl B. Johnson

— 1 Mar 2026

HIPAA Compliance

99243 CPT Code: A Practice Admin's Operations Guide

Consultation coding fails on paperwork, not clinical judgment. Here's how administrators document the request, route the report, and keep the vendors touching those records under contract.

Carl B. Johnson

— 1 Mar 2026

CPT Coding

95251 CPT Code Description: Practice Ops and Privacy

CGM interpretation billing pulls patient data through manufacturer portals, third-party aggregators, and staff logins your BAA list probably doesn't cover. Here's the operational and privacy workflow behind 95251.

Carl B. Johnson

— 28 Feb 2026

HIPAA Compliance

CPT 96375 Billing: A Practice Admin's Vendor Playbook

A practice-operations guide to CPT 96375: how the add-on IV push charge gets created, who touches the documentation, and the BAA, minimum-necessary, and records-request obligations that ride along with it.

Carl B. Johnson

— 28 Feb 2026