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Volume 10 Issue 4 - April 2016

Review of Responses to Reader Survey: ICD-10-CM Lessons Learned – Part 3
03/30/2016
Editor’s Note: Following are results to Part 3 of our three-part reader survey on ICD-10-CM — Preparation for ICD-10 Implementation: “Things I Would Do Differently if I Could Start Over Again.” Part 1 results published in February and Part 2...
Editor’s Note: Following are results to Part 3 of our three-part reader survey on ICD-10-CM — Preparation for ICD-10 Implementation: “Things I Would Do Differently if I Could Start Over Again.” Part 1 results published in February and Part 2...
Editor’s Note: Following are...
03/30/2016
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Quality Measures Resource Guide: How to Transition From Fee-for-Service to Value-Based Payments
03/30/2016
The transition from fee-for-service (FFS) to value-based reimbursement is one that will occur over many years. Frankly, that transition is going to hurt in the short run. To meet value-based goals, physicians must reduce utilization among...
The transition from fee-for-service (FFS) to value-based reimbursement is one that will occur over many years. Frankly, that transition is going to hurt in the short run. To meet value-based goals, physicians must reduce utilization among...
The transition from...
03/30/2016
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Self-Reporting of PQRS Measures in 2016: What You Choose to Report Does Matter!
03/30/2016
This is the first installment in a series of articles that will explain how CMS will use healthcare providers’ QRURs to determine their Medicare Part B payment rates. 
This is the first installment in a series of articles that will explain how CMS will use healthcare providers’ QRURs to determine their Medicare Part B payment rates. 
This is the first installment in...
03/30/2016
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Effectiveness of Color Calibrated Photo Documentation in the Wound Care Clinic
03/30/2016
If a picture is worth a thousand words, what are your photos saying about your wound care?   
If a picture is worth a thousand words, what are your photos saying about your wound care?   
If a picture is worth a thousand...
03/30/2016
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Next Generation ACO Model: Conversation With Industry Executives
03/30/2016
Today’s Wound Clinic recently reached out to those participating in the CMS Next Generation ACO Model. Here’s what members of various hospital executive teams had to say about their participation in this initiative and their expectations of...
Today’s Wound Clinic recently reached out to those participating in the CMS Next Generation ACO Model. Here’s what members of various hospital executive teams had to say about their participation in this initiative and their expectations of...
Today’s Wound Clinic recently...
03/30/2016
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Department

History
History of Wound Care: Maggots: An Extraordinary Natural Phenomenon
03/30/2016
The soft-bodied larva of the fly, otherwise known as the maggot, has played many roles throughout history, including that of the healer.  The medical use of maggots has gone by many names — biotherapy, biosurgery, larval therapy, and maggot...
The soft-bodied larva of the fly, otherwise known as the maggot, has played many roles throughout history, including that of the healer.  The medical use of maggots has gone by many names — biotherapy, biosurgery, larval therapy, and maggot...
The soft-bodied larva of the...
03/30/2016
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Practice Management
Physician Quality Reporting System Checklist for Wound Care Providers: The Art of Documentation and Reporting
03/30/2016
This article offers a go-to resource for quality measures reporting methods and guidelines for 2016.   
This article offers a go-to resource for quality measures reporting methods and guidelines for 2016.   
This article offers a go-to...
03/30/2016
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News

News
Product News
03/30/2016
Product Demonstrates Positive Clinical Outcomes 
Product Demonstrates Positive Clinical Outcomes 
Product Demonstrates Positive...
03/30/2016
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Column

Business Briefs
Business Briefs: Reimbursement Crystal Ball: Wound Care Models in Value-Based Payment
03/30/2016
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,...
03/30/2016
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Letter from the Editor
From the Editor
03/30/2016
Recently, a healthcare journal based in the United States published a prospective, double-blind, randomized controlled trial (RCT) conducted in Canada on the use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) for patients living with diabetes and...
Recently, a healthcare journal based in the United States published a prospective, double-blind, randomized controlled trial (RCT) conducted in Canada on the use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) for patients living with diabetes and...
Recently, a healthcare journal...
03/30/2016
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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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April 2016 Volume 10 Issue 4

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