Kathleen D. Schaum, MS
At the 3-hour Symposium on Advanced Wound Care (SAWC) Spring reimbursement post-conference, this author/speaker prepared more than 40 interactive coding, payment, and coverage scenarios for the attendees to assess their knowledge. The topics of the scenarios were carefully selected and included a balance of coding for frequently performed services, coding that is typically denied or recouped upon audits, coding and payment for new services and procedures, and new coding, coverage, and payment for new procedures … Surprisingly, the attendees spent the most time asking questions about a topic that should be well-known and understood by all wound/ulcer management physicians and other qualified healthcare professionals (QHPs): coding and payment for debridement … read more