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Volume 10 Issue 12 - December 2016

Feature

Infographic
Industry Insider News
12/16/2016
Doctors Overprescribing Drugs in the U.S.
Doctors Overprescribing Drugs in the U.S.
Doctors Overprescribing Drugs in...
12/16/2016
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News

News
Product News
12/16/2016
MÖLNLYCKE ANNOUNCES LICENSING AGREEMENT FOR SKIN CARE PRODUCTS  Mölnlycke Health Care (Gothenburg, Sweden), a medical device company, has reached a licensing agreement with Rochal Industries (San Antonio, TX), a biomedical research and...
MÖLNLYCKE ANNOUNCES LICENSING AGREEMENT FOR SKIN CARE PRODUCTS  Mölnlycke Health Care (Gothenburg, Sweden), a medical device company, has reached a licensing agreement with Rochal Industries (San Antonio, TX), a biomedical research and...
MÖLNLYCKE ANNOUNCES LICENSING...
12/16/2016
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News
Wound Clinic News & Notes
12/16/2016
NEW WOUND CLINIC HELPS HOSPITAL EARN HONOR  Redwood Area Hospital, Redwood Falls, MN, is being recognized by iVantage Health Analytics and the National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health (NOSORH) for providing overall excellence...
NEW WOUND CLINIC HELPS HOSPITAL EARN HONOR  Redwood Area Hospital, Redwood Falls, MN, is being recognized by iVantage Health Analytics and the National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health (NOSORH) for providing overall excellence...
NEW WOUND CLINIC HELPS HOSPITAL...
12/16/2016
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HIPAA Privacy & Security Compliance: Survey Results
12/16/2016
Regardless of where they reside, it appears a number of Today’s Wound Clinic (TWC) readers live in a state of denial when it comes to their compliance of HIPAA privacy and security laws. Recently, TWC conducted the survey “Is your Wound...
Regardless of where they reside, it appears a number of Today’s Wound Clinic (TWC) readers live in a state of denial when it comes to their compliance of HIPAA privacy and security laws. Recently, TWC conducted the survey “Is your Wound...
Regardless of where they reside,...
12/16/2016
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FDA Regulation of HCT/Ps: What Wound Care Practitioners Need to Know
12/16/2016
Editor’s Note: The following article discusses products characterized as “cellular and/or tissue-based products” (CTPs) by ASTM International. For purposes of this article, the legal and regulatory definition “human cells, tissues, and...
Editor’s Note: The following article discusses products characterized as “cellular and/or tissue-based products” (CTPs) by ASTM International. For purposes of this article, the legal and regulatory definition “human cells, tissues, and...
Editor’s Note: The following...
12/16/2016
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Myth-Busting in Wound Care: A Panel Discussion
12/13/2016
Today’s Wound Clinic (TWC) recently asked its editorial board members: “What are some wound care-related myths you’ve heard from patients and healthcare providers during your career?”
Today’s Wound Clinic (TWC) recently asked its editorial board members: “What are some wound care-related myths you’ve heard from patients and healthcare providers during your career?”
Today’s Wound Clinic (TWC)...
12/13/2016
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Reflections of a Wound Care Fellow: Notes From the Clinician’s Journal
12/13/2016
Editor’s Note: This is the first article in a series that will share the insights of a physician as she navigates her wound care fellowship and transitions into a full-time wound care practitioner.
Editor’s Note: This is the first article in a series that will share the insights of a physician as she navigates her wound care fellowship and transitions into a full-time wound care practitioner.
Editor’s Note: This is the first...
12/13/2016
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CMS News Center
12/13/2016
CMS Launches Online Tool to Assist With Quality Payment Program
CMS Launches Online Tool to Assist With Quality Payment Program
CMS Launches Online Tool to...
12/13/2016
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Column

Letter from the Editor
From The Editor
12/13/2016
My Dad’s definition of “mixed emotions” was seeing your mother-in-law drive off a cliff in your new car. A new Quality Payment Program (QPP) for practitioners takes effect this January, and I have mixed emotions about it. The final rule...
My Dad’s definition of “mixed emotions” was seeing your mother-in-law drive off a cliff in your new car. A new Quality Payment Program (QPP) for practitioners takes effect this January, and I have mixed emotions about it. The final rule...
My Dad’s definition of “mixed...
12/13/2016
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Business Briefs
Business Briefs: Pay Attention to 2017 Final Rule About On-Campus & Off-Campus Provider-Based HOPDs
12/13/2016
Information regarding coding, coverage, and payment is provided as a service to our readers. Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information. However, HMP Communications and the author do not represent, guarantee, or...
Information regarding coding, coverage, and payment is provided as a service to our readers. Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information. However, HMP Communications and the author do not represent, guarantee, or...
Information regarding coding,...
12/13/2016
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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
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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
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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
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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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