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A practice-operations walkthrough of the 99344 CPT code description for new-patient home and residence visits — documentation, place-of-service mechanics, and the vendor and PHI exposure that comes with sending clinicians into homes.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to billing for behavioral health services: how code selection gets documented, why psychotherapy notes never belong on a claim, and what the February 2026 Part 2 compliance date changed for your billing vendors.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to HCC ICD 10 risk adjustment: how chart chases actually run, who your reader can release records to, and which vendors need a signed BAA before a single note leaves the building.
Carl B. Johnson
A bug bite claim looks trivial until it drags a patient photo through unencrypted text, a workers' comp request, and a public health report. Here's the operations and privacy workflow behind it.
Carl B. Johnson
CPT 99459 is an add-on code tied to pelvic examination resources. This guide covers how practices document and report it, and the confidential-communications and vendor exposure that comes with putting it on a claim.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of DTaP immunization coding, documentation, and the privacy and vendor obligations attached to every dose your clinic records.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of CPT code 99385: eligibility checks, split preventive/problem visits, recall campaigns, and the vendor and records-handling exposure hiding inside a routine wellness appointment.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of the G0402 initial preventive physical examination: eligibility verification, the sensitive data the visit collects, and the vendor and records-handling obligations that follow it.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of billing code 99214: how level selection gets documented, who owns each step, and the BAA and records-request obligations that follow every claim you send out the door.
Carl B. Johnson
Essential hypertension coding touches almost every claim your practice sends. Here is how I10 moves from the encounter note to the payer, and the records, restriction, and vendor obligations that ride along with it.
Carl B. Johnson