Can You Dispense Surgical Dressings/Wound Care Supplies to an Inpatient?
The short answer is...No. Medicare will not make separate payments for items dispensed during any inpatient stay in acute Read More →
Can You Dispense Surgical Dressings/Wound Care Supplies to A Nursing Home Patient?
If you can't dispense surgical dressings/wound care supplies to your inpatients, can you dispense supplies to your nursing home Read More →
Get Ready! Additions to Pressure Ulcer Coding Coming Soon
Surgical dressings can be used for all types of qualifying ulcers. This includes arterial ulcers, venous ulcers, diabetic foot Read More →
Dispensing Primary and Secondary Dressings With Different Change Frequencies
When dispensing surgical dressings, it is important to differentiate between primary and secondary dressings and to use them in Read More →
Proof of Delivery: Part 4
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) require that DME suppliers maintain proof that any time dispensed was Read More →
Proof of Delivery: Part 3
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) requires that DME suppliers maintain proof that any item dispensed was Read More →
Marketing Wound Care in Your Practice
You have decided that you want more wound care patients, but how? LOOK at Your Patients Dr. Jonathon Moore Read More →
Can Private Practice Compete with Wound Care Centers? Yes!
When I ask physicians why they are not doing more wound care in their office, I often hear the Read More →
Proof of Delivery: Part 1
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) requires that DME suppliers maintain proof that any item dispensed was Read More →
Separately Identifiable E/M Demystified
Does dispensing surgical dressings at the same encounter as an ulcer debridement count as an evaluation and management (E/M)? Short Read More →
