Another Tale of the Medicare Disadvantaged: MA Prior Authorization is Needed for the Skilled Home Health Agency to Get Wound Dressings – It’s a Joke, Right?

Another Tale of the Medicare Disadvantaged: MA Prior Authorization is Needed for the Skilled Home Health Agency to Get Wound Dressings – It’s a Joke, Right?

Why my patient with Medicare Advantage does not have any wound dressings, even though he has had “skilled home health” for 3 weeks. And to make this more fun, my hospital says we are spending too much staff time on each patient so we need to see them faster. This...
Go on a Virtual Dive Vacation

Go on a Virtual Dive Vacation

A lot of hyperbaric medicine physicians got into the field because they loved scuba diving. But, when the pressures of life and work take over, we often stop doing the things we love and then wonder why the joy has gone out of life. I recently met Joe Poe, an...
Sometimes I Love Being Wrong

Sometimes I Love Being Wrong

It happened again. L-arginine made me look foolish. I told the patient’s husband I didn’t think we could get this bone deep pressure injury to close without surgery. I kept doing office debridements, we used negative pressure wound therapy and an anti-biofilm agent....