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E/M coding touches your scribes, coders, RCM vendor, and every payer audit response. Here is how to run the workflow, assign the roles, and close the privacy gaps that open when outside parties read your notes.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to what CPT 99213 represents administratively, who in your practice touches it, and the records-handling and vendor obligations that ride along with every level-three claim.
Carl B. Johnson
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
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 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
A workflow guide to how medical billing code 99213 gets selected, documented, transmitted, and audited — and the privacy, records-request, and vendor obligations that ride along with every claim.
Carl B. Johnson