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The most-billed established patient office visit code also generates the most audit letters, vendor touchpoints, and records requests. Here is how to run the workflow without leaking PHI or losing the documentation trail.
Carl B. Johnson
Two competing code families, a modifier that broadcasts behavioral health status, and a vendor stack nobody put on the BAA list. Here is how practice administrators keep telehealth billing and telehealth privacy from drifting apart in 2026.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to the PHQ-9 CPT code: which codes practices evaluate, what documentation survives an audit, and why every digital screening tool on your intake tablet needs a BAA.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of the 99342 CPT code description — new-patient home and residence visits — plus the device, vendor, and records-request exposure that home-based care adds to your compliance program.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of Medicare vaccine coverage: how Part B and Part D claims route differently, who touches the PHI along the way, and which of those vendors belongs on your BAA list.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations breakdown of modifier 51 vs 59 — what each one does to a claim, who in your office decides, and the records-handling and vendor obligations that come with every appeal packet you send.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to how gyn exam ICD-10 code selection actually happens, and the confidential-communications, minimum-necessary, and vendor-contract problems that follow the claim out the door.
Carl B. Johnson
What CPT 90480 covers, how practices document and support it, and the registry, records-request, and business associate obligations that attach to every COVID-19 vaccine dose your staff administers.
Carl B. Johnson
CPT 99443 was deleted at the start of 2025, but the definition still drives appeals, audits, and records requests on older dates of service — and the phone infrastructure behind it still creates BAA gaps.
Carl B. Johnson
Extremity ultrasound billed under CPT 76881 generates a permanent image, a written report, and a designated record set entry. Here is how practice administrators handle the documentation, the payer scrutiny, and the vendor exposure that comes with the probe.
Carl B. Johnson