Kathleen D. Schaum, MS

Business Briefs

Determining What’s Broken With Your Wound Clinic Reimbursement & Implementing Required Fixes

04/05/2018

Information regarding coding, coverage, and payment is provided as a service to our readers. Every effort has been made to ensure information accuracy. However, HMP and the author do not represent, guarantee, or warranty that coding,...

Information regarding coding,...

04/05/2018

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Business Briefs

Frequently Asked Questions About HBOT Reimbursement

03/01/2018

Kathleen D. Schaum , MS;

Even though obtaining reimbursement for hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) requires the same skills as obtaining reimbursement for other wound care procedures, wound care professionals continue to have many questions about coding, payment,...

Even though obtaining...

03/01/2018

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Business Briefs

2018 NCCI Policy Manual & Edits

02/02/2018

Kathleen D. Schaum , MS;

Information regarding coding,...

02/02/2018

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Business Briefs

Reimbursement Tips for Launching Your New Wound Care Clinic

10/05/2017

Kathleen D. Schaum , MS;

Information regarding coding, coverage, and payment is provided as a service to our readers. Every effort has been made to ensure information accuracy. However, HMP Communications and the author do not represent, guarantee, or warranty that...

Information regarding coding,...

10/05/2017

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Business Briefs

New Medicare Cards: What, Why, When, & How to Prepare

09/06/2017

Kathleen D. Schaum , MS;

Believe it or not, all Medicare beneficiaries will be receiving new Medicare identification cards. Yes, more than 57.7 million Americans will receive a new card! The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will randomly assign all...

Believe it or not, all Medicare...

09/06/2017

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Business Briefs

Working in a Wound Care Provider-Based Department: The Medical Director’s Perspective

08/08/2017

Kathleen D. Schaum , MS;

Information regarding coding,...

08/08/2017

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Business Briefs

Test Your Knowledge of Debridement Coding, Coverage, & Payment

07/03/2017

Kathleen D. Schaum , MS;

Information regarding coding,...

07/03/2017

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Business Briefs

Postoperative Care Reporting Required During Global Surgical Period

06/08/2017

Kathleen D. Schaum , MS;

Physicians and other professionals on staff in provider-based departments (PBDs), Medicare’s new label for what we previously referred to as hospital outpatient departments, are often inclined to ask this author about providing postoperative...

Physicians and other...

06/08/2017

Today's Wound Clinic

Letter from the Editor

Guest Editorial: A Worthwhile Learning & Collaboration Experience Awaits at Wound Clinic Business

06/08/2017

Kathleen D. Schaum , MS;

The entire editorial board of Today’s Wound Clinic (TWC) is celebrating the journal’s 10th anniversary in 2017. As one of the founding editorial board members, I am so proud of TWC and the work we have all produced over the past decade....

The entire editorial board of...

06/08/2017

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Business Briefs

Direct Supervision in the Provider-Based Department: What’s Required?

05/02/2017

Kathleen D. Schaum , MS;

Seventeen years ago, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented the Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) for hospital-based outpatient departments (HOPDs) such as the emergency department (ED) and the HOPD...

Seventeen years ago, the Centers...

05/02/2017

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