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Coding During the Postoperative Global Period
Many wound care–related procedures, including some amputations and certain incision and drainage...
CMS Releases the Final Rules of the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and the Hospital Outpatient Payment System
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the final rules of the Medicare...
Free Access to a Review Article on the Development & Treatment of Lymphatic Dysfunction in Cancer Patients
Check out this Open Access review article on the development and treatment of lymphatic...
Debridement Auditing – It’s All About the Benchmarking
More and more clinicians are telling me that they are being audited for debridement charges. This...
Assessing Malnutrition During the Wound Healing Process
Assessing a patient’s nutritional status during the wound healing process is of tremendous...
WATCH THIS: Trends in Wound Care Audits & Denials, with Dr. Caroline Fife and Dr. Helen Gelly
Last week, Dr. Caroline Fife and Dr. Helen Gelly enjoyed a relaxed, unscripted conversation about...
The History of Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) Debridement Audits
The MACs (Medicare Administrative Contractors) have been auditing wound debridements. I thought it...
How the Tiniest Details Impact Wound Care Revenue & Revenue Cycle Management
In the world of Revenue Cycle Management, attention to detail is no laughing matter. A seemingly...
Diabetic Foot Ulcer Coding – Diabetes Awareness Month
November is Diabetes Awareness Month. For those that treat diabetic foot ulcers and don't use...
New Study Highlights Risk Factors of Deep Tissue Injuries
Dr. Jenny Alderden and colleagues at the University of Utah and at Duke have just published the...
The 2022 Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule is Open for Comment
Yes, these proposed “rules” are hundreds of pages (sometimes thousands) and are often filled with...
What Exactly is a Separately Identifiable Evaluation & Management?
Evaluation & Management vs. Procedure Almost every service provided to a patient is either a...
Food as Medicine
This woman is 65 and developed a non-healing scalp wound after a fall 9 weeks earlier. The scalp...
Life-Saving Tech Is Here, So Let’s Use It
It’s frustrating, not to mention dangerous. I had a patient with limb-threatening pyoderma...
Survey Analysis: Wound Center Leadership Pressured for Higher Volumes
Earlier this month, the US Wound Registry conducted a market research survey intended to better...
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Debridement Audits – What Documentation Is Required?
The Local Coverage Determination (LCD) for wound care written by my Medicare Administrative...
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