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A practice-operations guide to the 99231 CPT code: census reconciliation, note-closure deadlines, split/shared documentation, and the vendor and records-access exposure that follows every rounding charge out the door.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of the 99344 CPT code description for new-patient home and residence visits — documentation, place-of-service mechanics, and the vendor and PHI exposure that comes with sending clinicians into homes.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to billing for behavioral health services: how code selection gets documented, why psychotherapy notes never belong on a claim, and what the February 2026 Part 2 compliance date changed for your billing vendors.
Carl B. Johnson
Insect bite encounters generate layered diagnosis codes, external cause data, and a claim trail that touches four or five vendors. Here's the operational workflow and the privacy obligations attached to it.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to HCC ICD 10 risk adjustment: how chart chases actually run, who your reader can release records to, and which vendors need a signed BAA before a single note leaves the building.
Carl B. Johnson
A bug bite claim looks trivial until it drags a patient photo through unencrypted text, a workers' comp request, and a public health report. Here's the operations and privacy workflow behind it.
Carl B. Johnson
RVUs drive Medicare payment, provider compensation, and productivity dashboards — and every one of those reports moves patient-level data somewhere. Here's the operational and privacy side of RVU reporting.
Carl B. Johnson
CPT 99459 is an add-on code tied to pelvic examination resources. This guide covers how practices document and report it, and the confidential-communications and vendor exposure that comes with putting it on a claim.
Carl B. Johnson
Chronic care management billing runs on time logs, consent records, and a care plan that lives in your chart — and usually on a vendor who touches all three. Here is how to run it without creating a records or BAA problem.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of CPT code 99385: eligibility checks, split preventive/problem visits, recall campaigns, and the vendor and records-handling exposure hiding inside a routine wellness appointment.
Carl B. Johnson