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A practice-operations guide to how wound washout CPT code selection actually gets documented — plus the photo storage, vendor BAA, and records-request exposures that ride along with every wound care claim.
Carl B. Johnson
How practices handle the 99254 CPT code operationally: the request-and-report rule, payer recognition problems, hospital EHR access risk, and the vendor agreements that hold it all together.
Carl B. Johnson
Hypertension codes touch your clearinghouse, your billing vendor, your analytics stack, and your records requests. Here's the operational workflow — and the privacy obligations that ride along with it.
Carl B. Johnson
What RVUs actually are, how the fee schedule math works, and why the encounter-level extract behind your productivity dashboard is PHI long before it becomes a chart in a board deck.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of the 87880 CPT code description: CLIA waiver mechanics, QW modifier handling, QC logs, and the vendor and records-access exposure a rapid strep test creates.
Carl B. Johnson
The 99439 CPT code bills the second and third 20-minute blocks of chronic care management staff time. Here's the documentation, consent, vendor, and records-request workflow your practice needs behind it.
Carl B. Johnson
The 99000 CPT code covers specimen handling and conveyance to an outside lab. It rarely pays — but the workflow behind it moves PHI out your back door every day. Here's how to run it cleanly.
Carl B. Johnson
G0506 is the add-on code tied to the chronic care management initiating visit. Here's how the workflow actually runs in a practice — and where the vendor, consent, and records-handling risk sits.
Carl B. Johnson
Preoperative clearance generates a claim, a records packet, and a vendor trail. Here's how administrators handle pre op ICD10 sequencing, minimum necessary, and the BAAs that clearance workflows quietly create.
Carl B. Johnson
The 33 modifier tells a commercial payer a service was delivered as preventive care under ACA guidelines. Here is the operational workflow, the denial patterns, and the vendor and records-handling obligations that follow.
Carl B. Johnson