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Wound Care Billing Mistakes In Home Health
The Top 10 List
Save Time, Money, and Headaches in Your Home Health Agency. Avoid these common pitfalls, and you’ll get supplies to patients faster while keeping your agency’s budget intact. Here are the top 10 mistakes, and how to fix them!
Expert List Curators
Denise Richlen
PT, WCC, DWC, CLT, OMS
Treating clinician, mentor, instructor, and consultant in wound care for over 30 years in a multitude of acute and post-acute settings including including home health.
Executive VP – Archangel
Bryan Breland
Healthcare billing operations leader for over 10 years. Expert in wound care billing as both an operator and a consultant in a variety of post-acute care settings including home health.
Executive VP – Archangel
#3 – Wrong Dressing for the Wound
Mistake: Ordering foam for a wound drowning in exudate—or pairing it with hydrogel—doesn’t make clinical sense. Payers won’t reimburse, and your agency eats the cost of supplies that don’t fit the wound’s needs.
Fix: Match dressings to the wound’s reality: alginates or super absorbers for heavy exudate, foam for moderate. Document the “why” (e.g., “high drainage justifies alginate”) to lock in reimbursement.