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Consultation coding fails on paperwork, not clinical judgment. Here's how administrators document the request, route the report, and keep the vendors touching those records under contract.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to CPT 96375: how the add-on IV push charge gets created, who touches the documentation, and the BAA, minimum-necessary, and records-request obligations that ride along with it.
Carl B. Johnson
Preoperative clearance requests arrive by fax, portal, and phone call — and every one of them creates a coding decision, a disclosure, and a vendor exposure. Here's how to run the workflow without leaking anything.
Carl B. Johnson
What G0101 covers, how the 23-month and 11-month frequency clocks work, what the chart has to show, and the vendor and records-handling exposure that rides along with every screening claim.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of the 99233 CPT description — what the code descriptor requires, how documentation gets reviewed, and where the privacy, minimum-necessary, and business associate exposures sit in an inpatient billing workflow.
Carl B. Johnson
A $12 point-of-care urine pregnancy test generates one of the most sensitive line items your billing system will ever transmit. Here's how the 81025 CPT code description works operationally — and what it obligates your front desk, billers, and vendors to do.
Carl B. Johnson
What the 99223 CPT code definition means operationally for a hospitalist or specialist group — who touches the record, which vendors need BAAs, and how to build an audit response packet without over-disclosing PHI.
Carl B. Johnson
Wound care generates codes, photographs, and vendor relationships in equal measure. Here is how administrators structure documentation, assign roles, and close the privacy gaps that dressing changes create.
Carl B. Johnson
A plain-English operations guide to CMS HCC coding for practice administrators — the chart-chase workflow, who signs the BAA, retention clocks, and the disclosure rules that apply when a health plan asks for 200 charts.
Carl B. Johnson
A payer audit letter arrives asking for 22 charts, all level-4 established patient visits. Here's the operational, records-handling, and vendor-contract work that sits behind every 99214 claim your practice submits.
Carl B. Johnson