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CPT 15853 is an add-on code for suture or staple removal without anesthesia. Here is the front-desk script, the outside-records workflow, and the vendor exposure that comes with it.
Carl B. Johnson
Three different definitions of telemedicine operate inside your practice simultaneously — payer, state, and HIPAA. Here is how administrators reconcile them in coding workflow, records requests, and the vendor file.
Carl B. Johnson
Telehealth billing fails at the intake screen, not the clearinghouse. A practical guide to place-of-service capture, consent documentation, audit trails, and the vendor agreements your remote visits quietly require.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to how the Gardasil CPT code moves through your claim file, your VFC inventory records, and your state immunization registry — and the privacy and vendor obligations each hop creates.
Carl B. Johnson
Established-patient follow-up visits drive most of a practice's claim volume — and most of its records requests. Here is how code selection, documentation, and vendor exposure connect, from the front desk to the clearinghouse.
Carl B. Johnson
CPT 98008 is one of the audio-only telemedicine E/M codes. This guide covers the documentation fields your template needs, the payer verification step most practices skip, and the telephony vendor BAAs that audio-only visits quietly create.
Carl B. Johnson
Suture removals performed by someone other than the original closing provider create a coding question and a records-request problem at the same time. Here is the workflow, the documentation, and the vendor exposure.
Carl B. Johnson
The three-year lookup, the same-specialty rule, and the vendor chain that touches every new patient claim — written for administrators who answer the billing dispute and the records request that follows.
Carl B. Johnson
An operations guide to the 90461 CPT code description for administrators: how component counting works, who touches the claim, and where immunization data leaks out of your practice.
Carl B. Johnson
Hypertension is a diagnosis, not a procedure — so the "CPT code for hypertension" your staff is searching for doesn't exist. Here's what actually goes on the claim, and the vendor and records obligations that follow.
Carl B. Johnson