The short answer is… No. Medicare will not make separate payments for items dispensed during any inpatient stay in acute care hospitals, long term care hospitals, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, inpatient psychiatric facilities, or critical access hospitals. Medicare makes payments to these entities via different payment systems and all payments made through these systems are considered […]
If you can’t dispense surgical dressings/wound care supplies to your inpatients, can you dispense supplies to your nursing home patients? Yes, you can! Dispensing wound care products to your nursing home patients allows you to control the wound care supplies your patients are receiving. It is also great for an additional revenue source. Dispensing wound […]
Surgical dressings can be used for all types of qualifying ulcers. This includes arterial ulcers, venous ulcers, diabetic foot ulcers, and pressure ulcers. It is important to use the correct diagnosis codes for each of these ulcer types. Diabetic foot ulcer codes should start with L97-. Stasis ulcer codes begin with I83-. L89- codes are […]
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) require that DME suppliers maintain proof that any item dispensed was received by the beneficiary in the form of a Proof of Delivery document. This document must be maintained for at least seven years. This could be requested by DMEMACs, recovery auditors, supplemental medical review contractors, or […]
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) requires that DME suppliers maintain proof that any item dispensed was received by the beneficiary in the form of a Proof of Delivery document. This could be requested by DMEMACs, recovery auditors, supplemental medical review contractors, or Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) medical review contractors. In our […]
You have decided that want more wound care patients, but how? LOOK at Your Patients Dr. Jonathon Moore taught me to always have my staff roll up patient pant legs and look for wounds. You will be surprised at how many of your patients have wounds. Every Door Direct Mail (EDDM) EDDM postcard mailing […]
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) requires that DME suppliers maintain proof that any item dispensed was received by the beneficiary in the form of a Proof of Delivery document. It may be requested by DMEMACs, recovery auditors, supplemental medical review contractors, or Comprehensive Error Rate Testing (CERT) medical review contractors. In last […]
When I ask physicians why they are not doing more wound care in their office, I often hear the following objections : We have a hospital wound care center in town, and they handle all wound care. Wound care clinics have more specialized equipment than we have. Physicians don’t want to refer wound care patients […]
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) requires that DME suppliers maintain proof that any item dispensed was received by the beneficiary in the form of a Proof of Delivery document. This proof may be needed to substantiate payment. It may be requested by DMEMACs, recovery auditors, supplemental medical review contractors, or Comprehensive Error […]
The surgical dressings available from AMERX Health Care are only covered by a patient’s insurance if they are being used for a surgical wound or a debrided wound. This debridement can be surgical, mechanical, chemical or autolytic. When performing a surgical debridement, both the CPT code selection and ICD-10 code selection are important. CPT Coding […]