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A practice-operations guide to the Initial Preventive Physical Examination: eligibility windows, documentation governance, patient outreach rules, and the vendor and records-handling exposure most practices miss.
Carl B. Johnson
G0181 is a monthly, time-based, non-face-to-face home health care plan oversight code. Here is how practices track the 30 minutes, close the calendar month cleanly, and handle the PHI that piles up from the home health agency along the way.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to running Annual Wellness Visits: eligibility clocks, health risk assessment vendors, outreach lists, documentation retention, and the BAA gaps that show up when you outsource the visit.
Carl B. Johnson
The codes behind Medicare wellness visits aren't CPT codes at all — and the health risk assessment feeding them is one of the largest PHI intake pipelines in a primary care practice. Here's the operational and privacy build.
Carl B. Johnson
A Medicare additional documentation request usually gives you 45 days. Here is how to pull, package, and ship those charts without creating a privacy problem — plus the vendor and BAA questions the request exposes.
Carl B. Johnson
The phrase "initial wellness visit" maps to two different Medicare benefits with different eligibility windows — and the health risk assessment behind it quietly turns three or four vendors into business associates. Here is the operational and privacy workflow.
Carl B. Johnson
The Welcome to Medicare visit generates eligibility checks, screening questionnaires, and third-party data flows that most practices never mapped. Here is the operational workflow and the privacy exposure underneath it.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of incident to billing: the supervision documentation your MAC will ask for, who owns each step, and how the resulting records and vendor relationships fall under HIPAA.
Carl B. Johnson