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Sports physicals generate a coding decision, a third-party disclosure, and a payment workflow all in the same 20-minute visit. Here is how to run all three without creating a breach or a billing problem.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of online digital E/M billing: what the 99421 CPT code description covers, how to log cumulative time defensibly, and the portal vendor and records-access obligations that come attached.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to time based medical billing: capturing minutes accurately, assigning roles, surviving a payer records request, and controlling the vendors who touch your time data.
Carl B. Johnson
How practices map brief anxiety screening instruments to a billable code, document the encounter, and handle the privacy and vendor exposure that a GAD-7 score creates in the chart.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to how administrators document venipuncture and specimen collection coding — and the requisition, courier, and vendor privacy exposures that ride along with every tube that leaves your building.
Carl B. Johnson
RVUs drive your fee schedule, your provider compensation model, and a monthly data export that almost certainly contains PHI. Here is how the math works and where the privacy obligations attach.
Carl B. Johnson
There is no CPT code for anxiety — CPT describes services, ICD-10-CM describes the condition. Here's how practices document code selection, and where behavioral health claims create privacy, records, and vendor exposure.
Carl B. Johnson
Developmental screening generates claims, questionnaires, scores, and a vendor trail. Here's how administrators run 96110 workflows cleanly and cover the privacy obligations the screening tool creates.
Carl B. Johnson
A urine pregnancy test is a two-dollar strip that creates a claim, a lab record, a statement, and a confidentiality problem. Here's how practice administrators handle the coding mechanics and the privacy fallout.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to medical billing code 99204: how level selection gets documented, who touches the record on the way to the payer, and where your BAA coverage has gaps.
Carl B. Johnson