Payers Continue to Release Pertinent Coverage Policies

At the 2021 SAWC Fall, this reimbursement consultant/educator/author was honored to provide a main session reimbursement presentation, as well as a 3-hour interactive reimbursement post-conference workshop. The attendees at both venues were very attentive and asked many excellent questions. On the plane ride home, this author reflected on the questions that were asked at both sessions and came to the conclusion that many wound/ulcer management professionals either 1) have not implemented a process for monitoring and reviewing pertinent payers’ coverage policies or 2) have not incorporated these important “playbook guidelines” into their wound/ulcer management assessments, care plans, coding selections (diagnosis, evaluation & management, procedure, and product), and documentation … read more