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Staff search for a "PPD vaccine CPT code" and land on the wrong code family. Here's how administrators separate tuberculin testing from BCG vaccination, and where the privacy and vendor problems hide.
Carl B. Johnson
CPT 96161 bills a caregiver's screening under the patient's account. That single fact creates records, EOB, and vendor problems most practices never mapped. Here's the operational fix.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of vaccine administration billing: who selects the code, what the record has to show, how registry reporting works under HIPAA, and which vendors need a BAA before your next flu clinic.
Carl B. Johnson
Advance care planning billing turns on documented time, voluntariness, and who was in the room — and it drops a legally sensitive document into your chart. Here's the operational and privacy workflow for administrators.
Carl B. Johnson
CPT code 99051 sits at the intersection of scheduling, billing, and vendor risk. Here's how practices document posted extended hours, assign roles, and close the BAA gaps that open when a skeleton crew runs a Saturday clinic.
Carl B. Johnson
CPT 15853 is an add-on code for suture or staple removal without anesthesia. Here is the front-desk script, the outside-records workflow, and the vendor exposure that comes with it.
Carl B. Johnson
Time based billing turns minutes into revenue and into records. Here's how administrators build the capture workflow, survive a payer audit, and cover the vendors who touch the timestamps.
Carl B. Johnson
Three different definitions of telemedicine operate inside your practice simultaneously — payer, state, and HIPAA. Here is how administrators reconcile them in coding workflow, records requests, and the vendor file.
Carl B. Johnson
Telehealth billing fails at the intake screen, not the clearinghouse. A practical guide to place-of-service capture, consent documentation, audit trails, and the vendor agreements your remote visits quietly require.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of CPT code 90662: how the product code moves through your claim, your registry feed, your off-site clinics, and your vendor agreements — and where the privacy exposure actually sits.
Carl B. Johnson