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...
The Fairy Tale is Over

The Fairy Tale is Over

Check out my editorial in Today’s Wound Clinic about the way that things have changed for the outpatient wound center. It happened again today — a patient could not afford a huge copay for a compression bandage, thanks to the fine print of his Medicare Advantage...