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Developmental screening billed under 96110 creates PHI before the visit even starts — on tablets, in vendor scoring portals, and in text-message links. Here's the operational and privacy workflow your practice needs.
Carl B. Johnson
Suture removal looks like a two-minute visit and bills like a minefield. Here's how practices sort global periods, code selection, outside records, wound photos, and the vendors that touch the claim.
Carl B. Johnson
A B12 shot takes ninety seconds and generates two code lines, a supervision question, a payer coverage check, and a paper trail that can disclose a diagnosis to the wrong household member. Here's the operational workflow.
Carl B. Johnson
An operations guide to the 99211–99215 family: who decides the level, what documentation supports it, how to answer a payer audit without over-disclosing, and which vendors in the billing chain need a BAA.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to Medicare vaccine coverage: the Part B and Part D split, roster billing mechanics, registry reporting, and the vendor agreements a vaccine program quietly creates.
Carl B. Johnson
How family history codes move from your intake packet into claims, analytics tools, and vendor systems — and the HIPAA genetic information rules that follow them the whole way.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations breakdown of the 99213 RVU: what the three components are, who on your staff owns the annual update, and why RVU productivity reporting is a PHI problem before it is a revenue problem.
Carl B. Johnson
A single Pap specimen touches your MA, a courier, a reference lab, a clearinghouse, and a portal vendor. Here's how the coding actually works — and the records, EOB, and BAA obligations that ride along with it.
Carl B. Johnson
Nursing facility rounding creates PHI that never touches your office network. Here's how administrators should route documentation, control census lists, and close the BAA gaps behind subsequent nursing facility visit billing.
Carl B. Johnson
E/M coding touches your scribes, coders, RCM vendor, and every payer audit response. Here is how to run the workflow, assign the roles, and close the privacy gaps that open when outside parties read your notes.
Carl B. Johnson