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RVU stands for Relative Value Unit — the CMS building block behind your fee schedule and most physician compensation formulas. Here's how the math works, where the data lives, and which vendors need a BAA before you hit export.
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 guide to Medicare vaccine coverage: how the Part B and Part D lanes change your billing workflow, and which immunization vendors belong on your BAA list.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to CPT 82947: how the order, specimen, result, and claim move through your office — and every privacy, retention, and vendor obligation attached to each step.
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
Time-based CPT coding generates timestamps, session logs, and attestations that live in your designated record set and pass through half your vendor list. Here's how to run it cleanly.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of annual physical ICD-10 coding: who assigns the code, how Medicare wellness visits differ, and the records-request and business associate exposure that Z-codes create.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to how administrators handle heart failure and hypertension coding — the documentation trail, the audit exposure, and the vendor and records-handling obligations that come with it.
Carl B. Johnson
Refills, step-therapy forms, and PBM portals turn a cheap generic into 20 minutes of administrative work. Here's the operational workflow for leukotriene modifier prescriptions, plus the vendor and records-handling exposure it creates.
Carl B. Johnson
Immunization claims look simple until a registry feed, a school records request, and a clearinghouse contract all land on the same encounter. Here's how the MMR vaccine CPT code moves through your practice and where privacy obligations attach.
Carl B. Johnson