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How practices determine and document telehealth code selection, assign roles across the claim workflow, and handle the vendor, recording, and records-request obligations that ride along with every virtual visit.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of Medicare annual wellness visit requirements — eligibility checks, supervision rules, HRA vendor exposure, documentation, and the records requests that follow.
Carl B. Johnson
The three-year lookup, the same-specialty rule, and the vendor chain that touches every new patient claim — written for administrators who answer the billing dispute and the records request that follows.
Carl B. Johnson
A workflow guide for administrators: how excisional biopsy code selection gets documented, which vendors touch the specimen and the pathology report, and where the BAA and records-request obligations land.
Carl B. Johnson
Punch biopsies generate specimens, requisitions, pending logs, path reports, and appeal packets — every one of them PHI. Here's how administrators run the 11104 workflow without leaking it.
Carl B. Johnson
An operations guide to CPT 98014 and the rest of the audio-only telemedicine E/M family: what your documentation has to capture, why Medicare claims may not use these codes at all, and which vendors just became business associates.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to biopsy coding workflows — specimen logs, modifiers, anti-markup rules, pathology report access requests, and which partners in the specimen chain actually need a Business Associate Agreement.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of the 99235 CPT code: the 8-hour threshold, the documentation your coders need, and the records-handling and BAA obligations that follow every same-day admit-and-discharge claim.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of how staff document, route, and bill two-phase abdominal CT studies — and the records-access and vendor obligations that ride along with every image.
Carl B. Johnson
A search for the ICD 10 code hyperbilirubinemia returns a family of codes, not one. Here is how practices document code selection, keep mother and newborn charts separate, and manage the lab, device, and billing vendors that touch that data.
Carl B. Johnson