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A practice-operations guide to E/M coding: who touches a code between visit and remittance, what documentation an auditor will demand, and which vendors in the chain need a signed BAA.
Carl B. Johnson
Cognitive and memory findings create a coding problem and a privacy problem in the same encounter. Here is how to run code selection, records requests, family disclosures, and vendor oversight without improvising at the front desk.
Carl B. Johnson
CGM interpretation billing pulls patient data through manufacturer portals, third-party aggregators, and staff logins your BAA list probably doesn't cover. Here's the operational and privacy workflow behind 95251.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of depression screening codes, the intake workflow around them, and the records-access, minor-consent, and business associate obligations that attach the moment a score is recorded.
Carl B. Johnson
An operations guide to the HIPAA forms your practice actually runs on — what makes an authorization valid, which clocks each request starts, and where your form vendors create exposure.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations guide to CPT code 20550: what documentation your coders need, how the drug line and modifiers get handled, and which vendors touch the claim once it leaves your building.
Carl B. Johnson
TB skin testing looks like a two-minute encounter until you trace the paperwork: a return visit, an employer results letter, an employee file that isn't PHI, and three vendors touching the data. Here's the operational map.
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
Wound care claims travel with photographs, measurements, and third-party product records. This guide covers the operational mechanics of wound care CPT code selection and documentation, then makes the privacy, records-release, and vendor obligations explicit.
Carl B. Johnson
A practice-operations walkthrough of the 99223 CPT code description — what it covers, how practices document code selection, who touches the note on its way to the claim, and where the BAA and records-request obligations land.
Carl B. Johnson