title: 2015: "key word" for wound care business success.
abstract: Wound care professionals should consider all this attention to the key word documentation as your 2015 "heads-up." You should conduct a self-audit and request an external audit of your own documentation against all the regulations, LCDs, Policy Articles, newsletters, and educational programs that CMS and your MACs are providing. You should also embrace the questioning and assistance, pertaining to your documentation, which you may receive from your coders and billers. These coding and billing professionals should be your "best friends" to help you improve your clinical documentation as soon as possible. You cannot afford to be one of the professionals who are requested to repay for services you actually provided just because you did not take the time to document your excellent wound care work.
authors.affiliation: Kathleen D. Schaum, MS, is President and Founder of Kathleen D. Schaum & Associates, Inc, Lake Worth, Florida. Ms Schaum can be reached for questions and consultations by calling 561-964-2470 or through her e-mail address: kathleendschaum@bellsouth.net. Submit your questions for Payment Strategies by mail to Kathleen D. Schaum, MS, 6491 Rock Creek Dr, Lake Worth, FL 33467.
authors.forename: Kathleen D
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: Schaum
mesh_terms: D059019:Clinical Coding; D004282:Documentation; D006801:Humans; D011216:Practice Management, Medical; D012883:Skin Ulcer / Q000628:therapy*; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000628:therapy*