The Hidden Cost of Medicare Audits and “Patients Over Paperwork”
If this is what is required for only 2 chart audits, think of the volume of paper records pouring into the MACs for all the services under audit.
Category: Healthcare Payment Policy
Join Me at the APWCA Conference in Baltimore
The APWCA annual meeting is THE place to get the most up to date information on healthcare reform and public policy affecting wound care and hyperbaric medicine.
Regulating Efficiency
It’s a waste of my time to even TRY to use a cellular product on a patient with Medicare Advantage.
Endpoints for Wound Patients – Do We Really Care?
CMS doesn’t care enough about patient reported outcomes like Quality of Life to incentivize collecting it as a quality measure, and manufacturers don’t care enough to fund the additional analysis that is needed.
Visualizing the Complex Patient
Saying “we heal everyone” is a terrible idea.
Whack-a-Mole and the Best Value for Money Ever
Writing comment letters on draft policy is a giant game of Whack-a-Mole, and every year we get farther behind.
Let’s Find What Works
With the gutting of the bonus payments originally possible in MIPS, the small upwards fee adjustments available under MIPS can’t adjust for this, and the cost of complying with the Quality Payment Program (QPP) is exacerbating the problem.
