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CPT billing codes are PHI the moment they attach to a patient. Here's how they move through your practice, which vendors touch them, and the HIPAA obligations that follow — restriction requests, records requests, appeals, and BAAs.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of shave biopsy CPT coding — what documentation your coder needs, how add-on codes stack, and where specimen handling, photos, and vendor contracts create HIPAA exposure.
Carl B. Johnson
The code most staff search for isn't a CPT code at all. A practice-operations guide to B12 injection coding, documentation, payer rules, and the vendor exposure that comes with a high-volume injection program.
Carl B. Johnson
A practical guide to CPT 99497 for administrators and billing staff: what the time documentation has to show, how the annual wellness visit overlap works, and how to control the vendor and records-request exposure an advance care planning note creates.
Carl B. Johnson
CPT 99459 is a practice-expense add-on code tied to pelvic examinations. Here's how administrators build the workflow, and why the documentation it depends on creates records-request and vendor exposure most practices haven't mapped.
Carl B. Johnson
Health risk assessment screening generates sensitive PHI at scale, often through a third-party tablet app nobody has a BAA with. Here's how administrators handle documentation, records requests, and vendor exposure around 96160.
Carl B. Johnson
A level-five office consultation stands or falls on paperwork your front desk controls: the request, the reason, and the written report back. Here is how to build that workflow — and close the vendor gaps it creates.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of CPT 90460 and 90461 — what the descriptor requires, how staff document unit counts, and every vendor that touches the resulting claim and immunization record.
Carl B. Johnson
G0136 pays for standardized social determinants of health risk assessment — and drops housing, food, and safety data into your charts. Here's how practices run the workflow and control the privacy exposure it creates.
Carl B. Johnson
Hypertension coding touches nearly every chart in a primary care panel — and every diagnosis code you submit travels through a chain of vendors. Here is the operational and privacy side of that workflow.
Carl B. Johnson