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A practice-operations guide to the 11402 CPT code: what documentation drives code selection, which vendors touch the resulting records, and where the BAA and minimum-necessary obligations actually bite.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to biopsy coding workflows — specimen logs, modifiers, anti-markup rules, pathology report access requests, and which partners in the specimen chain actually need a Business Associate Agreement.
Carl B. Johnson
What the 99253 inpatient consultation descriptor says, how practices document code selection, and the records-handling and business associate exposure that consult workflows create.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of the 99235 CPT code: the 8-hour threshold, the documentation your coders need, and the records-handling and BAA obligations that follow every same-day admit-and-discharge claim.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of how staff document, route, and bill two-phase abdominal CT studies — and the records-access and vendor obligations that ride along with every image.
Carl B. Johnson
A single foreign body removal generates an operative note, wound photos, a specimen, a claim, and half a dozen vendor handoffs. Here's how administrators keep the 10120 CPT code clean on both the billing side and the privacy side.
Carl B. Johnson
Telehealth and telemedicine are not interchangeable words on a claim form, in a policy manual, or on a vendor list. Here's how the distinction changes your billing documentation, your BAA inventory, and your records-request workflow.
Carl B. Johnson
Every normal delivery creates two patients, two charts, and two sets of privacy obligations. Here's how the 99460 CPT code description drives newborn billing workflow — and where the records and vendor risk actually sits.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of CPT code 99392: how the visit gets scheduled, documented, and billed, and where the records-handling and vendor risks sit for administrators and privacy officers.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of skin biopsy coding, the documentation fields that survive an audit, and the vendor and records-handling obligations that follow every specimen out your back door.
Carl B. Johnson