DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2025 Issue 3 (March)

Q&A: For homebound patients, first refer to HHAs before providing incident-to care

Question: In our state, a certified wound care nurse can perform certain kinds of debridement, cauterization, or other types of wound services. There’s a debate over what level of billing this individual can perform. I’d like the provider to provide supervision with an E/M of the RN at home, who will perform the wound service (whichever one it is). Would this be an E/M plus a service code?

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