Reimbursement

The Places of Service, or POS, is a designation that payers, CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services), and MACs (Medicare Administrative Contractor) use to designate where specifically providers...

By Thomas E. Serena MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA Fans of folk singer John Prine will recognize the homey lyrics describing his views on organ donation. Sitting at my desk a few weeks ago with John Prine...

by Marcia Nusgart, Executive Director, Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders Editor's note:This blog post is part of the WoundSource Trending Topics series, bringing you insight into the latest clini...

By Bruce E. Ruben MD Have you noticed that in the fictional future, such as in the Star Trek universe, nobody uses money to pay for medical care? When you get sick, a starship medical officer scans...

By Michel H.E. Hermans, MD The 10 year old son of friends of mine incurred a gash in his right knee. After the injury, he was able to walk without pain in the leg (the gash did hurt, of course) but...

By Michel H.E. Hermans, MD With a recent acute and serious vision problem, I have had to visit three ophthalmologists (all with different specialties) and a neurologist. I have undergone a series o...

By Catherine T. Milne, APRN, MSN, BC-ANP, CWOCN There's a lot to be said about change, and much of what you say depends on which end of change you are on. Those of us who are early adopters of new ...

By Michel H.E. Hermans, MD In the June 2015 issue of the Journal of Ostomy Wound Management, Bell et al. published an article in which they reacted to the recent decision by CMS (January 22, 2015) ...

In this interview, Dr. Matthew Regulski, DPM, ABMSP, FFPM RCPS(Glasgow) discusses A- and Q-codes, how these codes differ, and more. ...