Putting Pressure on Skin Substitutes

Putting Pressure on Skin Substitutes

What are skin substitutes? A skin substitute is a product that is engineered from human, animal or synthetic materials and is used to treat chronic non-healing wounds such as diabetic ulcers and venous leg ulcers. Skin substitute codes range from Q4100-Q4353 and new...
AI Alert October 2025

AI Alert October 2025

The Add-On Epidemic: Fighting Fraud, Waste, and Abuse Beyond the Pandemic  When COVID-19 testing became routine, some laboratories began attaching high-cost “add-on” laboratory tests. While the public health emergency may have ended, the billing patterns it created...
AI Alert September 2025

AI Alert September 2025

Don’t be fooled by the “Two Midnight Rule” for single-day inpatient stays A single-day inpatient stay typically refers to an admission lasting one night, often for procedures or conditions such as childbirth, heart attack, stroke, bone fractures, or other acute...