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HIPAA

99497 CPT Code Description: A Practice Admin's Guide

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 Carl B. Johnson
HIPAA Compliance

Medication Refill ICD 10 Coding and Vendor Workflow

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 Carl B. Johnson
ICD-10 Coding

Viral URI ICD 10 Coding: A Practice Operations Guide

Cold-and-flu season fills your schedule with undifferentiated respiratory visits. Here is how practices assign, document, and defend those codes — and where the claims, statements, and vendor contracts behind them create privacy exposure.

Carl B. Johnson Carl B. Johnson
QW Modifier

QW Modifier: Billing, CLIA Records, and Vendor Risk

The QW modifier signals a CLIA-waived test on a Medicare claim. Here's the operational workflow, the certificate records your practice has to keep straight, and the vendor and privacy exposure that point-of-care testing creates.

Carl B. Johnson Carl B. Johnson