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Upper respiratory infection visits are the highest-volume encounter in most primary care and urgent care practices. Here is how administrators run URI ICD10 coding and documentation cleanly, and where the privacy, records, and vendor obligations attach.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations breakdown of prolonged non-face-to-face E/M reporting: what the code descriptor says, how Medicare treats it, how to document time defensibly, and which vendors touching that data need a BAA.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations breakdown of the 96375 CPT code description: what the add-on descriptor requires from your documentation, who owns each step, and how infusion records move through your vendor chain without leaking.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to telemedicine CPT codes: which code families your staff touches, how modifiers and place-of-service travel with the claim, and the vendor and BAA exposure that rides along with every virtual visit.
Carl B. Johnson
CPT 99080 is the code your practice reaches for when someone asks you to fill out a form. The billing question is the easy part; the authorization, minimum-necessary, and vendor questions are where practices get hurt.
Carl B. Johnson
What RVUs actually are, how the fee schedule math works, and why the encounter-level extract behind your productivity dashboard is PHI long before it becomes a chart in a board deck.
Carl B. Johnson
CPT 98016 replaced HCPCS G2012 for brief virtual check-ins. Here's how practice administrators handle the timing rules, consent capture, documentation, and the vendor agreements the code quietly requires.
Carl B. Johnson
The 99000 CPT code covers specimen handling and conveyance to an outside lab. It rarely pays — but the workflow behind it moves PHI out your back door every day. Here's how to run it cleanly.
Carl B. Johnson
G0506 is the add-on code tied to the chronic care management initiating visit. Here's how the workflow actually runs in a practice — and where the vendor, consent, and records-handling risk sits.
Carl B. Johnson
Preparticipation exams create three problems at once: a coding decision with no dedicated code, a self-pay conversation, and a disclosure to a third party. Here is the operational workflow, role by role.
Carl B. Johnson