Blog Posts by Matt Pine

A practical guide to EHRs for vascular surgery practice.

A wound care EHR athenahealth integration only pays off if per-wound measurements, serial trends, and structured CTP fields reach the chart, the claim, and the supply order without retyping. This article explains where general-purpose EHRs fall short for wound documentation, which data should move in each direction, where handoffs fail for mobile and facility teams, and what to ask vendors before signing.

This article outlines seven chronic wound management strategies, from structured TIMERS-based assessment to automated supply ordering, that close documentation gaps driving denials and audit requests. Providers learn how to chart what they already know in a form payers and auditors can verify, speeding healing and revenue cycle outcomes.

This article examines whether the Epic EHR wound care module supports coding-aware documentation for CTPs and debridement, revealing where its native flowsheets fall short and how specialty wound care apps like Intellicure integrate with Epic through FHIR to close revenue and audit gaps.

This article outlines eight wound care EHR integration best practices—from FHIR/SMART API connections to documentation-driven coding—that eliminate duplicate charting and reduce claim denials across hospital, SNF, and mobile wound care settings.

Medical supply ordering delays in wound care are a systemic operational failure — not an edge case — rooted in verbal handoffs, manual re-entry, and disconnected documentation workflows. This article explains why delays happen across SNF and outpatient settings and outlines practical strategies to eliminate them, protect healing trajectories, and reduce audit exposure.

This article examines the true root cause of clinic workflow inefficiency wound care practices experience, showing how documentation friction—not staffing or patient volume—drives denied claims, missed E/M levels, and after-hours charting. It also outlines what a wound-specific workflow fix looks like in practice.

This article breaks down 8 proven Wound Care Clinic Efficiency Strategies designed to help mobile wound care practices, hospital-based outpatient centers, and SNF wound programs eliminate documentation gaps, reduce claim denials, and protect revenue — by building wound care-specific workflow logic that general EHR systems simply can’t provide.

Wound clinics lose significant revenue not from a lack of patients, but from preventable breakdowns in documentation, coding, and compliance across every link of the revenue cycle chain. This article identifies the most common wound clinic revenue cycle problems—from missing wound measurements to claim denials—and provides practical strategies to fix them.