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A practice-operations guide to ambient clinical documentation: consent scripts, BAA terms, audio retention decisions, coding governance, and what happens when a patient asks for the recording.
Carl B. Johnson
G0136 pays for standardized social determinants of health risk assessment — and drops housing, food, and safety data into your charts. Here's how practices run the workflow and control the privacy exposure it creates.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations breakdown of how the 99214 RVU is built, who owns each input, and why your coding dashboards and billing vendors are a privacy problem before they are a revenue problem.
Carl B. Johnson
Hypertension coding touches nearly every chart in a primary care panel — and every diagnosis code you submit travels through a chain of vendors. Here is the operational and privacy side of that workflow.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of CPT 99484: the 20-minute monthly time threshold, consent documentation, audit-ready logs, and the privacy and vendor obligations that come with running a behavioral health integration program.
Carl B. Johnson
RVUs drive Medicare payment, physician compensation, and the monthly productivity report your CFO asks for. Here is how the math works, who touches the data, and where those spreadsheets turn into PHI your BAA list has to cover.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of the 99309 CPT code description for subsequent nursing facility care — plus the PHI handling, records-request, and vendor obligations that rounding creates.
Carl B. Johnson
Modifier 25 draws payer scrutiny, and scrutiny means records requests. Here's the operational workflow, the role assignments, and the vendor and minimum-necessary obligations that come with it.
Carl B. Johnson
How practices document and bill punch biopsies, plus the specimen-tracking, vendor, and records-request obligations that ride along with every skin biopsy claim.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of the 99345 CPT code description — new patient home and residence visits — plus the place-of-service, documentation, and vendor-agreement problems that follow your clinicians out the door.
Carl B. Johnson