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A payer letter asking for 60 charts is a coding problem and a privacy problem at the same time. Here's how to build a modifier 25 audit-response workflow that protects both your revenue and your PHI disclosure trail.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of the 99204 CPT code: how new-patient status gets verified, how time and MDM documentation is captured, and which vendors touch that note before it becomes an audit exhibit.
Carl B. Johnson
Hypertension is one of the highest-volume diagnoses in ambulatory care, which makes the high blood pressure ICD 10 code family a records-handling problem as much as a billing one. Here's the workflow, the vendor exposure, and the requests you'll field.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to the ICD-10-CM code families that cover diarrhea, the documentation chain your staff owns, and the BAA, minimum-necessary, and records-request duties that attach the moment a code leaves the chart.
Carl B. Johnson
A practical scribe definition for practice administrators — what scribes may document, how attestation should work, and whether your scribe vendor is a workforce member or a business associate.
Carl B. Johnson
Release notes, subprocessor changes, breach disclosures, and rule updates all land in the same inbox and none of them come with instructions. Here is how to triage EHR news into assignable compliance tasks with owners and deadlines.
Carl B. Johnson
The 99213 CPT code drives more established-patient claims than any other office E/M code — and every one of those claims moves PHI through a chain of vendors. Here's the operations and privacy workflow behind it.
Carl B. Johnson
Codes for CPT are protected health information the moment they attach to a patient. Here is how the annual changeover, your vendor list, and records requests intersect — written for administrators, not patients.
Carl B. Johnson
Findings without owners and dates stay open forever. Here is how to write, run, and close a HIPAA corrective action plan that survives an OCR document request — including a worked example and retention rules.
Carl B. Johnson
OCR's public breach portal — the so-called HIPAA wall of shame — lists every breach of 500 or more records, with your practice's name, state, and breach type. Here is what triggers a listing and what your documentation has to prove.
Carl B. Johnson