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Volume 10 Issue 2 - February 2016

ICD-10-CM Q&A: State of the Industry
02/12/2016
As part of our February issue on ICD-10, Today’s Wound Clinic recently spoke with Laurie Aloi-Zabel, CHC, CHPC, CPC, director of coding and compliance at MedSafe, Wellesley, MA, about her perceptions on the rate in which the wound care...
As part of our February issue on ICD-10, Today’s Wound Clinic recently spoke with Laurie Aloi-Zabel, CHC, CHPC, CPC, director of coding and compliance at MedSafe, Wellesley, MA, about her perceptions on the rate in which the wound care...
As part of our February issue on...
02/12/2016
Today's Wound Clinic
Review of Responses to Reader Survey: ICD-10-CM Lessons Learned
02/10/2016
In our most recent Reader Report, we examine responses to Part 1 of our ICD-10 series of surveys.  
In our most recent Reader Report, we examine responses to Part 1 of our ICD-10 series of surveys.  
In our most recent Reader...
02/10/2016
Today's Wound Clinic
Utilizing General Equivalence Mappings in the Wake of ICD-10-CM Transition
02/10/2016
Resources are available to assist in the coding translations brought on by ICD-10. This article gives an overview of utilizing GEMs as a crosswalk.  
Resources are available to assist in the coding translations brought on by ICD-10. This article gives an overview of utilizing GEMs as a crosswalk.  
Resources are available to...
02/10/2016
Today's Wound Clinic
Proper Diagnosis Under ICD-10-CM: Don’t be a Coding ‘Minimalist’
02/10/2016
Mastering the use of additional diagnosis codes (and knowing when to use them) is incumbent upon wound care professionals since the coding conversion.  
Mastering the use of additional diagnosis codes (and knowing when to use them) is incumbent upon wound care professionals since the coding conversion.  
Mastering the use of additional...
02/10/2016
Today's Wound Clinic
Wound Care Revenue Barriers in an ICD-10-CM Environment: Tips for QHPs & Coders
02/10/2016
The fanfare for ICD-10 may have been a bit hyped. However, coding and reimbursement challenges remain.  
The fanfare for ICD-10 may have been a bit hyped. However, coding and reimbursement challenges remain.  
The fanfare for ICD-10 may have...
02/10/2016
Today's Wound Clinic
ICD-10-CM Lessons Learned: Examining Controversies in Pressure Ulcer Coding Post-Implementation
02/10/2016
For many areas of diagnosis coding, ICD-10 guidelines are very clear.However, pressure ulcers have some areas of inconsistency that affect the assignment of the appropriate stage. This article will address some of the many questions wound...
For many areas of diagnosis coding, ICD-10 guidelines are very clear.However, pressure ulcers have some areas of inconsistency that affect the assignment of the appropriate stage. This article will address some of the many questions wound...
For many areas of diagnosis...
02/10/2016
Today's Wound Clinic

Column

Letter from the Editor
Guest Editorial: Our ICD-10-CM ‘Lessons Learned’ Edition
02/10/2016
In my 48 years of working with medical reimbursement, only a few “bellwether” reimbursement events are indelibly stamped in my memory: the first day hospitals switched to the Medicare payment system known as diagnosis-related groups, the day...
In my 48 years of working with medical reimbursement, only a few “bellwether” reimbursement events are indelibly stamped in my memory: the first day hospitals switched to the Medicare payment system known as diagnosis-related groups, the day...
In my 48 years of working with...
02/10/2016
Today's Wound Clinic
Business Briefs
Review of LCDs Released After ICD-10-CM Conversion
02/10/2016
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 authors 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 authors do not represent, guarantee, or...
Information regarding coding,...
02/10/2016
Today's Wound Clinic
HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance
ICD-10-CM & HIPAA: Not Such Strange Bedfellows
02/10/2016
With implementation of ICD-10 on Oct.1, 2015, the obvious question for many wound care clinicians is, “How does ICD-10 impact my HIPAA practices?” Find out here.  
With implementation of ICD-10 on Oct.1, 2015, the obvious question for many wound care clinicians is, “How does ICD-10 impact my HIPAA practices?” Find out here.  
With implementation of ICD-10 on...
02/10/2016
Today's Wound Clinic

News

News
Product News
02/10/2016
  New Type of Medical Honey Obtains FDA Approval  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the following products in the SionBrands, Inc. (Rolling Meadows, IL) L-Mesitran® wound care line, all of which are based on honey: Soft,...
  New Type of Medical Honey Obtains FDA Approval  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the following products in the SionBrands, Inc. (Rolling Meadows, IL) L-Mesitran® wound care line, all of which are based on honey: Soft,...
  New Type of Medical Honey...
02/10/2016
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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
Today's Wound Clinic
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
Today's Wound Clinic
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
Today's Wound Clinic
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
Today's Wound Clinic
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
Today's Wound Clinic
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
Today's Wound Clinic
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
Today's Wound Clinic

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
Today's Wound Clinic
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
Today's Wound Clinic
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
Today's Wound Clinic
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
Today's Wound Clinic

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