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A single foreign body removal generates an operative note, wound photos, a specimen, a claim, and half a dozen vendor handoffs. Here's how administrators keep the 10120 CPT code clean on both the billing side and the privacy side.
Carl B. Johnson
There is no single combination code for hypertension and diabetes. Here is how your practice documents and sequences these encounters, and how the resulting diagnosis data moves through payers, coders, and audit vendors.
Carl B. Johnson
Telehealth and telemedicine are not interchangeable words on a claim form, in a policy manual, or on a vendor list. Here's how the distinction changes your billing documentation, your BAA inventory, and your records-request workflow.
Carl B. Johnson
A search for the ICD 10 code hyperbilirubinemia returns a family of codes, not one. Here is how practices document code selection, keep mother and newborn charts separate, and manage the lab, device, and billing vendors that touch that data.
Carl B. Johnson
Inpatient consults create three operational problems at once: payer-specific code selection, documentation that lives in someone else's EHR, and vendor access to hospital PHI. Here is how to run all three cleanly.
Carl B. Johnson
Every normal delivery creates two patients, two charts, and two sets of privacy obligations. Here's how the 99460 CPT code description drives newborn billing workflow — and where the records and vendor risk actually sits.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to Medicare vaccine coverage: how the Part B and Part D lanes change your billing workflow, and which immunization vendors belong on your BAA list.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of CPT code 99392: how the visit gets scheduled, documented, and billed, and where the records-handling and vendor risks sit for administrators and privacy officers.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of how abdominal CT claims get coded and documented — and the vendor, records-request, and minimum-necessary obligations that ride along with every DICOM study your office orders.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of skin biopsy coding, the documentation fields that survive an audit, and the vendor and records-handling obligations that follow every specimen out your back door.
Carl B. Johnson