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Advance care planning encounters generate time-based claims, sensitive narrative notes, surrogate disclosures, and a longer vendor list. Here's the operational and privacy workflow your practice needs before the first claim goes out.
Carl B. Johnson
Newborn accounts start with no name, no SSN, and no card of their own — and the infant chart is full of maternal PHI. A workflow and vendor-oversight guide for administrators and billing leads.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of CPT G0402 — the Welcome to Medicare visit — covering eligibility verification, documentation handoffs, add-on codes, and the vendor and records-handling exposure the visit creates.
Carl B. Johnson
How practice administrators run the inpatient admission billing workflow — code family, documentation trail, census-list privacy, and the vendor agreements that have to exist before the first claim goes out.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to time based medical billing: capturing minutes accurately, assigning roles, surviving a payer records request, and controlling the vendors who touch your time data.
Carl B. Johnson
How practices map brief anxiety screening instruments to a billable code, document the encounter, and handle the privacy and vendor exposure that a GAD-7 score creates in the chart.
Carl B. Johnson
Pre-op clearance visits generate a coding decision, a records exchange with three or four outside organizations, and a vendor list nobody reviewed. Here is how administrators run both sides cleanly.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to how administrators document venipuncture and specimen collection coding — and the requisition, courier, and vendor privacy exposures that ride along with every tube that leaves your building.
Carl B. Johnson
CPT 99423 pays for patient-initiated portal work, but only if your practice can prove consent, cumulative time, and a seven-day window. Here is the administrative workflow — plus the records and vendor obligations that come attached.
Carl B. Johnson
RVUs drive your fee schedule, your provider compensation model, and a monthly data export that almost certainly contains PHI. Here is how the math works and where the privacy obligations attach.
Carl B. Johnson