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CPT 99443 was deleted at the start of 2025, but the definition still drives appeals, audits, and records requests on older dates of service — and the phone infrastructure behind it still creates BAA gaps.
Carl B. Johnson
Extremity ultrasound billed under CPT 76881 generates a permanent image, a written report, and a designated record set entry. Here is how practice administrators handle the documentation, the payer scrutiny, and the vendor exposure that comes with the probe.
Carl B. Johnson
Flu season turns your practice into a high-volume data operation. Here's how CPT code 90656 moves through claims, registries, reminder vendors, and employer clinics — and where the privacy exposure actually sits.
Carl B. Johnson
A workflow guide to how medical billing code 99213 gets selected, documented, transmitted, and audited — and the privacy, records-request, and vendor obligations that ride along with every claim.
Carl B. Johnson
Hypertension codes touch nearly every chronic-care claim your practice submits — and every coding vendor, clearinghouse, and query log that touches them is a privacy exposure. Here's the operational and vendor view.
Carl B. Johnson
Upper respiratory infection visits are the highest-volume encounter in most primary care and urgent care practices. Here is how administrators run URI ICD10 coding and documentation cleanly, and where the privacy, records, and vendor obligations attach.
Carl B. Johnson
What the 99244 CPT code definition actually requires, why Medicare won't pay it, and how the consultation report back to the requesting provider becomes a disclosure your practice has to account for.
Carl B. Johnson
87637 is the multiplex molecular respiratory panel code. Here's how practice administrators document code selection, verify CLIA and QW requirements, and control the four vendors that touch every result.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations breakdown of prolonged non-face-to-face E/M reporting: what the code descriptor says, how Medicare treats it, how to document time defensibly, and which vendors touching that data need a BAA.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations breakdown of the 96375 CPT code description: what the add-on descriptor requires from your documentation, who owns each step, and how infusion records move through your vendor chain without leaking.
Carl B. Johnson