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G0179 pays your certifying practitioner for reviewing and signing a home health recertification the patient never attends. Here's the 60-day workflow, the documentation your MAC expects, and the PHI flows most practices never mapped.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to the 99348 CPT code description: what the descriptor covers, what your billing staff needs in the note, and the device, vendor, and records-request exposure a home visit program creates.
Carl B. Johnson
A preoperative clearance request touches your schedulers, your coders, your fax line, and at least four vendors. Here is the workflow, the code-selection structure, and the disclosure limits that keep it clean.
Carl B. Johnson
How practices document and route palliative care ICD-10 coding, where that data travels after submission, and the records and vendor obligations it creates for administrators.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to CPT code 20550: what documentation your coders need, how the drug line and modifiers get handled, and which vendors touch the claim once it leaves your building.
Carl B. Johnson
What the 99387 CPT code description actually says, how front-desk and billing staff verify new-patient status and payer rules, and the vendor and records-handling exposure a preventive visit creates.
Carl B. Johnson
TB skin testing looks like a two-minute encounter until you trace the paperwork: a return visit, an employer results letter, an employee file that isn't PHI, and three vendors touching the data. Here's the operational map.
Carl B. Johnson
CPT billing codes are PHI the moment they attach to a patient. Here's how they move through your practice, which vendors touch them, and the HIPAA obligations that follow — restriction requests, records requests, appeals, and BAAs.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of shave biopsy CPT coding — what documentation your coder needs, how add-on codes stack, and where specimen handling, photos, and vendor contracts create HIPAA exposure.
Carl B. Johnson
An operations guide to CPT 96374 for practice administrators: the documentation your coders need, the vendor chain that touches infusion records, and the privacy obligations that follow.
Carl B. Johnson