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A practice-operations guide to the anoscopy CPT code family: how coders determine code selection from documentation, which edits drive denials, and how to handle the unusually sensitive records and vendor relationships these encounters create.
Carl B. Johnson
Suture removals performed by someone other than the original closing provider create a coding question and a records-request problem at the same time. Here is the workflow, the documentation, and the vendor exposure.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of Medicare annual wellness visit requirements — eligibility checks, supervision rules, HRA vendor exposure, documentation, and the records requests that follow.
Carl B. Johnson
The three-year lookup, the same-specialty rule, and the vendor chain that touches every new patient claim — written for administrators who answer the billing dispute and the records request that follows.
Carl B. Johnson
An operations guide to the 90461 CPT code description for administrators: how component counting works, who touches the claim, and where immunization data leaks out of your practice.
Carl B. Johnson
G0101 has a frequency clock your scheduler controls, a 7-of-11 element documentation standard, and a recall list full of reproductive health data. Here's how administrators run it without generating denials or privacy incidents.
Carl B. Johnson
Transitional care management billing runs on a two-business-day contact clock and a 30-day service period — and it pulls hospital discharge data through vendors most practices never papered. Here is the operational and privacy workflow.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to the 99487 CPT code: the monthly documentation file, the one-practitioner-per-month problem, and why your care management vendor is a business associate with broad chart access.
Carl B. Johnson
Hypertension is a diagnosis, not a procedure — so the "CPT code for hypertension" your staff is searching for doesn't exist. Here's what actually goes on the claim, and the vendor and records obligations that follow.
Carl B. Johnson
Most practices run eleven or more documents they loosely call a HIPAA compliance form — and half of them do not do what staff think they do. Here is how to inventory, fix, and govern the stack.
Carl B. Johnson