by Tahlia Brody, VP Client Services at TLD Systems
December 03, 2025
By tahlia@tldsystems.com
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I’d like to share a personal experience that has made me so grateful to have HIPAA. I understand and sympathize with that burden HIPAA places on providers and practices. At TLD Systems we do our best to minimize that burden, educate you about your responsibilities and help you to meet the HIPAA requirements. My experiences reminded me that HIPAA is about protecting patents, and at some point we are all patients.
I have a patient with diabetic peripheral neuropathy and foot ulcers. I have been debriding the ulcers every two weeks, and we have billed out CPT 11042. Cigna has denied our latest two claims and the EOB says, “Procedure code is invalid for DOS and global.” There is no global for CPT 11042 and there should not be a procedure code invalid for any DOS with these claims. Any thoughts on what to do next?
Screen all employees at the time of hiring and every month for the List of Exclude Individuals/Entities. A current employee can end up on the exclusions list at any time so it is important to regularly check to see if they are on the exclusions list.