Wound Care

Whether you’ve got an extensive history in wound care management or your new to the field – there are always new information, treatments, and methods being investigated. Here’s a resource to for Ted Talks that have some interesting points of view on wound care and issues closely related.

In the last installment in this column, October’s Merit-Based Incentive Payment System Audit Checklist for 2017, we reviewed a sample MIPS Audit Checklist to support your documentation. One of the items included in the checklist was source documents. Source documents are the primary documentation requested for review during an audit (postattestation or reporting). At times during…

In previous columns, we have discussed the roadmap to Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) strategy and documentation. Your documentation may be subject to an audit so, you will need to provide information to verify your MIPS participation. This column will begin to discuss the data validation and audit criteria. In the next column, we will…

The key to successful Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) reporting is your engagement in the process. As discussed in previous columns, there are 4 categories of MIPS-eligible clinician performance contributing to a composite performance score of up to 100 points: Quality (weighted at 60% for 2017), Advancing Care Information (weighted at 25% for 2017), Improvement…

In last month’s column, we discussed the first part of the “Quality Payment Program: Advancing Care Information Performance Category” and focused on how the Advancing Care Information (formerly known as Meaningful Use) could be reweighted based on select criteria. We also reviewed measure set options for reporting. In this column, we review how the base,…