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SAWC Spring
How Community-Based Health Care Providers Can Manage Hard-to-Heal Wounds
04/24/2023
A poster to be presented at SAWC Spring has developed evidence-based recommendations for community-based health care providers when treating hard-to-heal wounds.
A poster to be presented at SAWC Spring has developed evidence-based recommendations for community-based health care providers when treating hard-to-heal wounds.
A poster to be presented at SAWC...
04/24/2023
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SAWC Spring
Can a Strategy Checklist Help Reduce Hospital-Acquired Pressure Injuries?
04/24/2023
A surgical intensive care unit saw lower numbers of hospital-acquired pressure injuries after the staff started using a checklist, according to a poster to be presented at SAWC Spring.
A surgical intensive care unit saw lower numbers of hospital-acquired pressure injuries after the staff started using a checklist, according to a poster to be presented at SAWC Spring.
A surgical intensive care unit...
04/24/2023
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Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
Videos
How Angiosomes Can Help Us Understand Pressure Injuries
10/26/2022
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM, discusses her SAWC Fall presentation on angiosomes and pressure injuries, offering strategies on pressure injury prevention.
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM, discusses her SAWC Fall presentation on angiosomes and pressure injuries, offering strategies on pressure injury prevention.
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP,...
10/26/2022
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Can a New Wound Photo App Reduce Billing Discrepancies?
Videos
Can a New Wound Photo App Reduce Billing Discrepancies?
10/14/2022
Misael Chaen Alonso, MD, FACP, CWSP, expounds on his SAWC Fall poster on a new photo app that measures true surface area of the wound, which can improve accuracy in billing.
Misael Chaen Alonso, MD, FACP, CWSP, expounds on his SAWC Fall poster on a new photo app that measures true surface area of the wound, which can improve accuracy in billing.
Misael Chaen Alonso, MD, FACP,...
10/14/2022
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Comparing Medical vs. Surgical Management of Osteomyelitis in the Diabetic Foot
Comparing Medical vs. Surgical Management of Osteomyelitis in the Diabetic Foot
10/14/2022
A poster to be presented at the SAWC Fall this week in Las Vegas evaluated the clinical outcomes in the published literature on medical and surgical management of diabetic foot osteomyelitis.
A poster to be presented at the SAWC Fall this week in Las Vegas evaluated the clinical outcomes in the published literature on medical and surgical management of diabetic foot osteomyelitis.
A poster to be presented at the...
10/14/2022
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Educating Patients on Quality Wound Photography for Telemedicine Visits
Educating Patients on Quality Wound Photography for Telemedicine Visits
10/14/2022
The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated the expansion of telemedicine to treat wound patients to reduce the risk of coronavirus transmission, making wound photography by patients crucial in attaining quality diagnosis and treatment. In a poster...
The COVID-19 pandemic necessitated the expansion of telemedicine to treat wound patients to reduce the risk of coronavirus transmission, making wound photography by patients crucial in attaining quality diagnosis and treatment. In a poster...
The COVID-19 pandemic...
10/14/2022
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Can Bacterial Fluorescence Predict Skin Graft Survival?
Can Bacterial Fluorescence Predict Skin Graft Survival?
10/14/2022
Bacterial fluorescence has high sensitivity and specificity in real-time to identify areas at high risk of skin graft lysis, according to a poster accepted at the SAWC Fall this week in Las Vegas.
Bacterial fluorescence has high sensitivity and specificity in real-time to identify areas at high risk of skin graft lysis, according to a poster accepted at the SAWC Fall this week in Las Vegas.
Bacterial fluorescence has high...
10/14/2022
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A Closer Look at Educating Health Care Assistants in Pressure Injury Prevention
A Closer Look at Educating Health Care Assistants in Pressure Injury Prevention
10/14/2022
Health care assistants play a large role in preventing pressure injuries in long-term care settings. A poster presented this week at the SAWC Fall in Las Vegas focused on the impact of education for health care assistants on their knowledge...
Health care assistants play a large role in preventing pressure injuries in long-term care settings. A poster presented this week at the SAWC Fall in Las Vegas focused on the impact of education for health care assistants on their knowledge...
Health care assistants play a...
10/14/2022
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TMA
Evaluating the Success of Limb Salvage via Transmetatarsal Amputation in Patients With PAD
10/14/2022
Transmetatarsal amputations can be successful in salvaging the lower extremities of patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD). A poster presented this week at SAWC Fall detailed differences in limb salvage rates in patients with varying...
Transmetatarsal amputations can be successful in salvaging the lower extremities of patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD). A poster presented this week at SAWC Fall detailed differences in limb salvage rates in patients with varying...
Transmetatarsal amputations can...
10/14/2022
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How Outpatient Wound Nurses Redesigned Their Work Environment During COVID-19
How Outpatient Wound Nurses Redesigned Their Work Environment During COVID-19
09/01/2022
COVID-19 caused upheaval in health care and in how the wound clinic treated patients. In a poster presented this week at the SAWC Fall, nurses at Houston Methodist Willowbrook Wound Care Clinic detailed how they adapted to treat patients...
COVID-19 caused upheaval in health care and in how the wound clinic treated patients. In a poster presented this week at the SAWC Fall, nurses at Houston Methodist Willowbrook Wound Care Clinic detailed how they adapted to treat patients...
COVID-19 caused upheaval in...
09/01/2022
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Letter From the Editor

Guest Editorial
Advocate for Your Wound Care Patients on the Proposed MAC Policy on CTPs
05/29/2024
Eric J. Lullove, DPM, CWSP
The MACs recently released proposed coverage policy updates for applying CTPs for DFUs and VLUs. This is your opportunity to effect change by submitting comments to the MACs before the policy becomes final. You have a responsibility to know...
The MACs recently released proposed coverage policy updates for applying CTPs for DFUs and VLUs. This is your opportunity to effect change by submitting comments to the MACs before the policy becomes final. You have a responsibility to know...
The MACs recently released...
05/29/2024
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From the Editor
The Future of Wound Care in the Quality Payment Program
03/13/2024
Whether we will be able to survive as wound care practitioners will, at least in part, depend on having quality measures that are relevant to what we actually do.
Whether we will be able to survive as wound care practitioners will, at least in part, depend on having quality measures that are relevant to what we actually do.
Whether we will be able to...
03/13/2024
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From the Editor
The Non-Pressure Ulcer Episode-Based Cost Measure "Field Test" Began Feb. 1
02/05/2024
For years I have been explaining how the QPP could be the end of wound care practitioners. The entire QPP is designed around recognized medical specialties and since there is no recognized specialty for wound care, we are all in trouble.
For years I have been explaining how the QPP could be the end of wound care practitioners. The entire QPP is designed around recognized medical specialties and since there is no recognized specialty for wound care, we are all in trouble.
For years I have been explaining...
02/05/2024
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Guest Editorial
The G-Code Solution to Skin Substitute Reimbursement
01/25/2024
I am calling on CMS to adopt new G codes to replace Q code reimbursement and CPT 15000 codes for skin substitute application procedures and to establish skin substitute product code classes.
I am calling on CMS to adopt new G codes to replace Q code reimbursement and CPT 15000 codes for skin substitute application procedures and to establish skin substitute product code classes.
I am calling on CMS to adopt new...
01/25/2024
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Guest Editorial
Wound Size Matters: Analysis of the New Restrictive Skin Substitute LCD Policy
09/01/2023
With so much ambiguity remaining, an immediate compromise on the number of applications to allow 7 is warranted both from an ethical and medical perspective. The current restriction of 4 applications is clearly not based on an accurate...
With so much ambiguity remaining, an immediate compromise on the number of applications to allow 7 is warranted both from an ethical and medical perspective. The current restriction of 4 applications is clearly not based on an accurate...
With so much ambiguity...
09/01/2023
Today's Wound Clinic
Guest Editorial
Wrestling With Implicit Bias to Deliver Better Care for Our Patients
06/01/2023
For some, bias remains a sensitive issue, and some people are reluctant to admit to the need for introspection. However, to mitigate the ill effects of bias, everyone must first acknowledge that it exists.
For some, bias remains a sensitive issue, and some people are reluctant to admit to the need for introspection. However, to mitigate the ill effects of bias, everyone must first acknowledge that it exists.
For some, bias remains a...
06/01/2023
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From the Editor
Confessions of a Doctor With Lipedema
03/14/2023
It is hard to understand how demoralizing it is. Lipedema affects your entire life, starting in the teenage years.
It is hard to understand how demoralizing it is. Lipedema affects your entire life, starting in the teenage years.
It is hard to understand how...
03/14/2023
Today's Wound Clinic
From the Editor
Why Won’t the DME Provide Dressings for My Patient?
02/23/2023
Maybe Because Of My Documentation
Maybe Because Of My Documentation
Maybe Because Of My...
02/23/2023
Today's Wound Clinic
Guest Editorial
How Wound Care Providers Can Treat Patients Like People, Not Like Cases
02/01/2023
Finding a skilled wound care professional comes down finding someone who is confident in their skill/craft—someone who treats the whole patient, not just the wound. Finding someone who would see me as a person and a whole being rather than...
Finding a skilled wound care professional comes down finding someone who is confident in their skill/craft—someone who treats the whole patient, not just the wound. Finding someone who would see me as a person and a whole being rather than...
Finding a skilled wound care...
02/01/2023
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Guest Editorial
Amputations in Pyoderma Gangrenosum Patients: Underreported or Very Rare?
01/11/2023
Are providers missing the diagnosis of PG because they are anchoring on “positive” biopsy findings? Could we be missing cases in which PG patients underwent amputation, didn’t have a recurrence, and were never diagnosed? Or are we just not...
Are providers missing the diagnosis of PG because they are anchoring on “positive” biopsy findings? Could we be missing cases in which PG patients underwent amputation, didn’t have a recurrence, and were never diagnosed? Or are we just not...
Are providers missing the...
01/11/2023
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Coping With COVID-19

Business Briefs
Telehealth Use Continues and Receives Further Medicare Payment 
01/25/2023
The COVID-19 PHE has been extended for 90 more days. This author reviews the Medicare telehealth flexibility extensions that may be important to wound/ulcer management professionals.
The COVID-19 PHE has been extended for 90 more days. This author reviews the Medicare telehealth flexibility extensions that may be important to wound/ulcer management professionals.
The COVID-19 PHE has been...
01/25/2023
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Business Briefs
The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Waivers Q&A
09/07/2022
This author answers more questions about what will happen to telehealth and other waivers when the COVID-19 PHE ends.
This author answers more questions about what will happen to telehealth and other waivers when the COVID-19 PHE ends.
This author answers more...
09/07/2022
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Business Briefs
The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Extension Also Applies to Telehealth
08/15/2022
The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) is extended through October 13, 2022. Many wound/ulcer management professionals have been using telehealth and should be happy to know that the Medicare waivers pertaining to telehealth have also...
The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) is extended through October 13, 2022. Many wound/ulcer management professionals have been using telehealth and should be happy to know that the Medicare waivers pertaining to telehealth have also...
The COVID-19 Public Health...
08/15/2022
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Business Briefs
The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, Coding Changes, and Coverage Changes Continue
02/09/2022
For this month, let us review the continuation of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), and the continuation of the ever-changing codes and coverage.
For this month, let us review the continuation of the COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE), and the continuation of the ever-changing codes and coverage.
For this month, let us review...
02/09/2022
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