Toni Turner, RCP, CHT, CWS, FCCWS

Getting Your Wound Clinic Ready for Business: A Comprehensive Checklist

02/14/2014

Caroline E. Fife , MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM;

Cathy Thomas Hess , BSN, RN, CWCN, CWOCN;

Susie Seaman , NP, MSN, CWOCN;

Donna J. Cartwright , MPA, RHIA, CCS, RAC, FAHIMA;

Toni Turner , RCP, CHT, CWS, FCCWS;

Joe Darrah ;

M. Darlene Carey , MBA;

Valerie Sullivan , PT, MS, CWS;

Kathleen D. Schaum , MS;

Rex A. McCarty , MBA, CHT;

Christopher A. Morrison , MD, FACHM, CWS, FCCWS;

Taking your wound clinic from concept, to construction, to completion, to compliance is an arduous process. With this checklist, Today’s Wound Clinic provides to-be wound clinic directors with an overview of the many parameters that must be...

Taking your wound clinic from...

02/14/2014

Today's Wound Clinic

Determining the Validity of Your Outpatient Wound Center

02/14/2014

Toni Turner , RCP, CHT, CWS, FCCWS;

Caroline E. Fife , MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM;

On April 7, 2000, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) (then named the Healthcare Financing Administration) issued requirements for provider-based departments and entities as part of the final rule that implemented the...

On April 7, 2000, the Centers...

02/14/2014

Today's Wound Clinic

The Coming Audit Storm

08/14/2012

Toni Turner , RCP, CHT, CWS, FCCWS;

Those of us on the Gulf Coast know that even on an otherwise beautiful, sunny day, complacency about the weather can be dangerous. With that, anyone who runs a business or owns a home near the coast is encouraged to have a...

Those of us on the Gulf Coast...

08/14/2012

Today's Wound Clinic

Work That Happens Before The Patient Is Seen: The Chargemaster and the Billing Cycle

03/03/2011

Toni Turner , RCP, CHT, CWS, FCCWS;

In 2007, TWC published an issue on Before the patient can be seen, the clinic has to determine how it will prepare a bill (charges) for the services rendered to the patient. This means that every hospital clinic needs to develop a...

In 2007, TWC published an...

03/03/2011

Today's Wound Clinic

Feature

Opening Your New Clinic: A Comprehensive Checklist

10/05/2017

Caroline E. Fife , MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM;

Cathy Thomas Hess , BSN, RN, CWCN, CWOCN;

Donna J. Cartwright , MPA, RHIA, CCS, RAC, FAHIMA;

Joe Darrah ;

Kathleen D. Schaum , MS;

Susie Seaman , NP, MSN, CWOCN;

Christopher A. Morrison , MD, FACHM, CWS, FCCWS;

Toni Turner , RCP, CHT, CWS, FCCWS;

Valerie Sullivan , PT, MS, CWS;

M. Darlene Carey , MBA;

Rex A. McCarty , MBA, CHT;

Taking your wound clinic from...

10/05/2017

Today's Wound Clinic

Medical Necessity

Medical Necessity in the HOPD: Are You Seeing the ‘Right’ Patients?

05/03/2014

Caroline E. Fife , MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM;

Toni Turner , RCP, CHT, CWS, FCCWS;

In August 2000, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) created the hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS). CMS projected that in 2013 the cost of services provided to Medicare beneficiaries under OPPS would be...

In August 2000, the Center for...

05/03/2014

Today's Wound Clinic

Compliance + Compliance = More Compliance?

10/01/2008

Toni Turner , RCP, CHT, CWS, FCCWS;

If compliance regulations, rules, and policies are so effective, why does it seem as though the more we have, the more we need? After all, isn’t the idea that if we regulate, supervise, and mandate … that things should get more in control...

If compliance regulations,...

10/01/2008

Today's Wound Clinic