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A practice-operations guide to CPT 96160: who administers the instrument, what the chart has to show, which vendors touch the data, and how completed screenings behave in a records request.
Carl B. Johnson
Transitional care management runs on two clocks and a paper trail. Here's how to assign the 99495 workflow across your staff, document it for audit, and cover the discharge-data vendors it pulls into your practice.
Carl B. Johnson
Cognitive and memory findings create a coding problem and a privacy problem in the same encounter. Here is how to run code selection, records requests, family disclosures, and vendor oversight without improvising at the front desk.
Carl B. Johnson
The 99201 CPT code has been deleted since January 1, 2021, yet it still appears in superbills, EHR favorites, self-pay price lists, and archived claims. Here's how administrators clean it out and handle the records and vendor exposure it leaves behind.
Carl B. Johnson
POS 22 signals an on-campus hospital outpatient setting — and it changes your reimbursement, your chart ownership, and your vendor list. A workflow guide for practice administrators and compliance leads.
Carl B. Johnson
Q0091 covers obtaining and conveying a screening Pap specimen for Medicare patients. Here is how practices document code selection, survive frequency denials, and control the PHI that leaves the building with the specimen.
Carl B. Johnson
G0438 is the initial Medicare Annual Wellness Visit code — once per lifetime, heavily audited, and built on a health risk assessment that most practices collect through a third party. Here's the operational and privacy workflow.
Carl B. Johnson
Skin biopsy billing pulls protected health information through pathology labs, couriers, results portals, and clearinghouses. Here's how administrators should map the operational and privacy workflow behind the 11102 CPT code.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to telemedicine ED coverage: who owns the record, which vendors need BAAs, how coding decisions get documented, and what breaks when the encounter lives in two systems.
Carl B. Johnson
The Medicare health risk assessment touches your front desk, your intake vendor, your scanning workflow, and your payer disclosures. Here's how to run it without creating a records problem.
Carl B. Johnson