Reimbursement

In part 2, we will discuss how clinicians and physicians determine if Medicare will cover and pay for various types of debridement. Why should wound ulcer management clinicians, physicians, and QHPs s...

The Places of Service, or POS, is a designation that payers, CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services), and MACs (Medicare Administrative Contractor) use to designate where specifically providers...

By Cheryl Carver, LPN, WCC, CWCA, FACCWS, DAPWCA, CLTC National Nurse's Week (May 6-12) clearly influenced me for this month's blog topic. I think about teamwork among nursing staff members. A join...

By Cathy Wogamon, DNP, MSN, FNP-BC, CWON, CFCN Wound care has evolved into a massive specialty service in the past few decades, with new treatment modalities, advances in care, and thousands of wou...

By Bruce E. Ruben MD Have you noticed that in the fictional future, such as in the Star Trek universe, nobody uses money to pay for medical care? When you get sick, a starship medical officer scans...

By Catherine T. Milne, APRN, MSN, BC-ANP, CWOCN There's a lot to be said about change, and much of what you say depends on which end of change you are on. Those of us who are early adopters of new ...

By Michel H.E. Hermans, MD In the June 2015 issue of the Journal of Ostomy Wound Management, Bell et al. published an article in which they reacted to the recent decision by CMS (January 22, 2015) ...

In this interview, Dr. Matthew Regulski, DPM, ABMSP, FFPM RCPS(Glasgow) discusses A- and Q-codes, how these codes differ, and more. ...

Documentation is a crucial component of compliant billing and coding. Here, Kathy Schaum shares important insights into this process....