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Important Message from UHMS Executive Director about Prior-Authorization and HBOT

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 7, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

Attention Hyperbaric Medicine Colleagues, especially those in New Jersey, Michigan and Illinois! Please read the important note below from UHMS Executive Director, John Peters. Dear Hyperbaric Medicine Practitioner, The Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS)...

Predicting Ideal Wounds for HBOT

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 30, 2016 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

The Hyperbaric oxygen therapy prior authorization project has been in effect a little more than a year and CMS is in the process of reviewing its impact to prepare an interim report. As the Medicare coffers dwindle, we have to ask ourselves how we can best utilize...

Straight Talk Tuesday

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Sep 22, 2015 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care

Yesterday I posted some of the reasons for denial of HBOT under prior authorization. I thought I’d point out something that should be obvious but might not be. It appears that HBOT is being denied for DFUs unless—at a bare minimum: Hemoglobin A1C is being checked and...
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