The Courage to Do the Right Thing

I was introduced to this problem early in my career. More than two decades ago, I was an Associate Professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston … Wound Center was the first of its kind (at least, that I know of) to perform “point of care” electronic documentation (in the room with the patient), using a system that internally calculated the physician’s billed level of service and collected discrete data about patients and their wounds … CMS proposed a facility billing system based on wound SIZE. That proposed system was never adopted because during a meeting with CMS, Intellicure President and CEO, David Walker, used Intellicure data from thousands of patient visits to demonstrate that, if implemented, 99% of wound center visits would be billed at the lowest level of … read more