There are many important reasons for auditing documentation, including determining its accuracy, assessing the completeness of a medical record, and discovering lost revenues. When auditing a medical record, the documentation is examined to determine whether it adequately substantiates the services billed and identifies medical necessity for the services rendered. If this process is not conducted […]
Wound Care
Promoting Interoperability 2019: Sharing Electronic Health Record Information
While you are fully focused on managing your Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) documentation for your 2019 reporting, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has updated a number of important resource documents within the full resource library at the Quality Payment Program website. One of these resources is the MIPS Promoting Interoperability Prevention of […]
Managing Your Workflow to Meet Regulations
Proper workflows are at the heart of a successful wound care business. Whether you are in the outpatient wound care setting or working as a traveling physician, designing clinical and operational workflows requires close review and customization of current clinical and documentation practices for an efficient outcome. Current practices include the operational processes for registration, […]
Comprehensive Patient and Wound Assessments
Performing a comprehensive patient assessment is an essential first step toward healing a chronic skin condition or wound. After the clinician has assessed the patient, identified any underlying conditions affecting healing, performed a complete assessment of the patient’s nutrition status, performed the proper tests to provide an accurate diagnosis of the underlying problem, assessed the […]
Retail giant, Walmart, will require EPCS for controlled substances in 2020.
Electronic Prescribing of Controlled Substances (EPCS) is one of the initiatives being used to help address the growing issues with prescription drug abuse in the U.S. The definition of EPCS is in the name—it allows practitioners to write and transmit prescriptions for controlled substances electronically and permits pharmacies to receive and dispense the orders. Traditionally, […]
The Top U.S. Health Systems use a Net Health solution (woo hoo!)
Do you know what makes us happy at Net Health (besides having wonderful co-workers and copious amounts of coffee at our disposal)? Knowing that 14 out of 15 of the top-ranked U.S. health systems rely on a Net Health solution on a daily basis. That feels good. Let’s back up a sec for some context. […]
Understanding Your Merit-based Incentive Payment System Performance Feedback Report
After taking the time to diligently document and report your Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) measures and activities, it is important to review your Performance Feedback Report detailing the category scores for your MIPS data submission. The scores provide you with payment adjustment information (excluding voluntary submitters) and details about measures and activities. Clinicians participating […]
Merit-based Incentive Payment System 2019: Promoting Interoperability Details and Measures
In the February 2019 Practice Points column, Merit-based Incentive Payment System 2019 Changes, we reviewed the final changes to the 2019 Quality Payment Program Final Rule1 under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). In this column, we will focus on the Promoting […]
Patient Awareness Week 2019
Studies suggest that 400,000 deaths in the US each year may be attributed to medical error, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality estimates that at any time, 1 in 25 hospital patients contract an infection in a health care setting. One of the most common errors in both inpatient and outpatient setting? Medication […]
Misdiagnosis of Wounds
Wound healing is a complex process that uses specific cellular and biochemical actions to achieve wound closure. These processes (homeostasis, inflammation, proliferation, and maturation) occur over defined periods of time. They are often taken for granted as the wound innately granulates, contracts, and epithelializes under optimal conditions. A wound begs the clinician’s attention when the […]