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High-level new patient visits draw records requests, and every request moves charts through billing vendors, scribes, and clearinghouses. Here's how to document, route, and protect them.
Carl B. Johnson
G2211 is a Medicare add-on code for visit complexity, not a CPT code — and the difference matters for your claim edits, your audit response, and your vendor list. A workflow guide for administrators and billing staff.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of the 99203 CPT code: how level selection gets documented, who touches the claim, and the BAA, access, and minimum-necessary duties that follow the chart out the door.
Carl B. Johnson
Two years after Medicare turned on payment for G2211, most practices are either underreporting it or appending it reflexively. Here's the operational workflow, the modifier traps, and the vendor and records-handling exposure that comes with it.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of the 99204 CPT code: how new-patient status gets verified, how time and MDM documentation is captured, and which vendors touch that note before it becomes an audit exhibit.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to the ICD-10-CM code families that cover diarrhea, the documentation chain your staff owns, and the BAA, minimum-necessary, and records-request duties that attach the moment a code leaves the chart.
Carl B. Johnson
Hypertension diagnosis codes ride on more claims than almost anything else your practice submits — and they travel to clearinghouses, RCM vendors, and analytics tools. Here is the operational and privacy side of managing them.
Carl B. Johnson
Hypertension codes are among the highest-volume diagnoses in most outpatient practices — and they travel through more vendors than almost anything else on your claim. Here's how to run the workflow and control the disclosures.
Carl B. Johnson
The 99213 CPT code drives more established-patient claims than any other office E/M code — and every one of those claims moves PHI through a chain of vendors. Here's the operations and privacy workflow behind it.
Carl B. Johnson
An operations guide to the 99214 CPT code for administrators: how level selection is documented, how to run internal audits without creating new PHI exposure, and which vendors touching the claim need a signed BAA.
Carl B. Johnson