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A walk-in with staples from another hospital triggers a coding decision, an outside-records request, and at least two vendor exposures. Here is the operational workflow for administrators and billing staff.
Carl B. Johnson
Skin tag removals look like small encounters and generate outsized administrative risk: cosmetic-versus-covered determinations, ABNs, clinical photographs, and a vendor chain nobody inventoried. Here's the operational workflow.
Carl B. Johnson
A single RSV dose touches your EHR, clearinghouse, state registry, inventory system, and recall vendor within minutes. Here is how practices document code selection and control the privacy exposure that follows.
Carl B. Johnson
There is no standalone CPT code for a vaginal exam. Here is how practices actually determine and document code selection for pelvic and vaginal examinations — and the privacy, records, and vendor obligations that ride along with the claim.
Carl B. Johnson
What the 99347 CPT code description actually requires, how practices document code selection for home and residence visits, and the PHI, device, and vendor exposures that come with sending clinicians into patients' living rooms.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of how legacy "DPT" chart entries get resolved into current immunization coding — and the records-access, registry-reporting, and vendor obligations that ride along with every vaccine charge.
Carl B. Johnson
An operations guide to the trigger finger injection CPT code family: how coders determine and document code selection, where the modifier decisions live, and every vendor that touches the claim.
Carl B. Johnson
What the 99221 CPT code description covers, how practices document level selection under the post-2023 inpatient E/M rules, and where the PHI and vendor risk sits in a hospital-based billing workflow.
Carl B. Johnson
A two-visit tuberculin skin test creates two encounters, two documentation trails, and at least three places your practice can leak information. Here's the operational and privacy playbook for administrators.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of the 87636 CPT code description: how the multiplex respiratory panel moves from cartridge to clearinghouse, and which of the vendors along that path needs a signed BAA.
Carl B. Johnson