By Emily Carter, Senior RCM Specialist at 3 Axis RCM OBGYN billing looks simple from the outside. A patient comes in. The provider documents the visit. The billing team submits the claim. The payer processes it.But anyone who has worked inside an OB-GYN practice knows the reality is very different. One patient may come in for a routine annual visit. Another may need prenatal care for several months. Another may transfer care halfway through pregnancy. Another may have a preve

CPT 97597 description for selective wound debridement, with a focus on clinical documentation, wound measurements, tissue removal, and accurate coding for wound care billing.

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Pediatric billing looks simple from the outside. A child visits the provider, the clinic submits a claim, the insurance pays, and the balance gets posted. But anyone who has worked inside medical billing knows that is not how it usually works. Pediatric billing has its own pressure points. Children may be covered under a parent’s policy. Medicaid rules may change. Vaccine claims need separate attention. Preventive visits can easily get mixed with sick visits. One small mistak

Running a pediatric practice is already a full-time job. You're focused on your patients, your team, and keeping everything moving. Billing is supposed to happen in the background. But for a lot of pediatric practices, it doesn't work that way. Claims get denied. Payments sit unresolved for weeks. Staff spend hours on hold with insurance companies instead of helping patients. And nobody really knows why it keeps happening. We do. At 3 Axis RCM, we work with pediatric practice

Debridement coding is the single biggest denial driver in wound care today. Not skin substitutes. Not ICD-10 specificity. Debridement. And the reason is almost always the same: coders selecting the CPT code based on wound depth instead of the deepest tissue layer actually removed during the procedure. That one misunderstanding generates a quarter of all wound care denials at practices without certified specialty coders. If your denial rate on CPT 11042, 11043, or 11044 is r

CMS-1832-F flattened skin substitute pay to $127.14/sq cm in 2026. Here's what Q41xx codes, the ASP sunset, and clawback exposure mean for your wound care practice.