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Pre-op clearance requests generate coding decisions, outbound records packets, and vendor exposure in the same 48 hours. Here's how to run the workflow without creating a breach or a denial.
Carl B. Johnson
There is no CPT code for anxiety — CPT describes services, ICD-10-CM describes the condition. Here's how practices document code selection, and where behavioral health claims create privacy, records, and vendor exposure.
Carl B. Johnson
Cyst excisions look simple until the claim comes back denied and the chart can't support it. Here's how administrators build the documentation, coding, and vendor workflow around removal of sebaceous cyst CPT reporting.
Carl B. Johnson
A urine pregnancy test is a two-dollar strip that creates a claim, a lab record, a statement, and a confidentiality problem. Here's how practice administrators handle the coding mechanics and the privacy fallout.
Carl B. Johnson
Hypertension diagnoses move through your EHR, clearinghouse, coding vendor, and risk-adjustment partner every single week. Here is the operational workflow — and the records-handling and BAA gaps it exposes.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to medical billing code 99204: how level selection gets documented, who touches the record on the way to the payer, and where your BAA coverage has gaps.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of the 99387 CPT code: eligibility checks, ABN workflow, documentation of code selection, and the vendor and privacy exposure a single preventive claim creates.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to excision of cyst CPT workflows: what the note must capture, how the pathology loop delays claims, and the privacy and vendor obligations that follow the specimen out your back door.
Carl B. Johnson
G0558 is a HCPCS Level II code, not a CPT code — and that distinction changes where you verify the descriptor, how you build the fee schedule entry, and which vendors need a BAA before the first claim goes out.
Carl B. Johnson
Joint injections generate a procedure code, a drug code, units, modifiers, and often an ultrasound image — every one of which creates a record your practice has to store, disclose, and defend. Here is the operational workflow.
Carl B. Johnson