Since it’s not possible to prevent an audit, the only thing you can do is generate records that will protect you from recoupment.

There are a lot of “standards” and regulations which apply to Electronic Health Records (EHR’s), but many require interpretation.

Since the Medicare auditors can do pretty much whatever they want, we have to change what we are doing.

Why should a clinic insist that only one device is the right one if the patient has a preference? I don’t know what to tell her about these issues.

It’s worth the effort to read this because it makes perfect sense that excess permeability of the endothelium is a key part of the problem for many of our patients.

These patient stories were so compelling that even though I’d planned to tell them that I could not help them, I just couldn’t bring myself to say that.

A few days ago, I got one of those CMS “eblasts” about the results of Medicare CERT audits (Comprehensive Error Rate Testing).  The audit looks at whether there is sufficient documentation to back up the claim against Medicare. In 2021, CMS estimated that, based on...

Meta-analysis of three randomized clinical trials showed that vitamin D supplementation reduced the risk for type 2 diabetes in Prediabetics.

The truth is, figuring out what you need to document is tedious but not hard. I don’t have a solution to the problem of getting practitioners to do it.

Advanced Practice Nurse Laura Kaiser’s motivation was simple — to provide wound and disease management to the underserved – in their homes.