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Volume 11 Issue 1 - January 2017

News

News
CMS News Center
01/06/2017
Apply for Clinical Practice Improvement Activities & Measurement Study by Jan. 31
Apply for Clinical Practice Improvement Activities & Measurement Study by Jan. 31
Apply for Clinical Practice...
01/06/2017
Today's Wound Clinic
News
Industry Insider News
01/06/2017
Organogenesis Announces New ‘Q’ Code for PuraPly Beginning Jan. 1, PuraPly™ Antimicrobial Wound Matrix by Organogenesis Inc., Canton, MA, has a new Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System code: Q4172. Wound care providers can now: use...
Organogenesis Announces New ‘Q’ Code for PuraPly Beginning Jan. 1, PuraPly™ Antimicrobial Wound Matrix by Organogenesis Inc., Canton, MA, has a new Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System code: Q4172. Wound care providers can now: use...
Organogenesis Announces New ‘Q’...
01/06/2017
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News
Product News
01/06/2017
Apligraf Demonstrates Significant Change In Chronic Wound Genomic Profile
Apligraf Demonstrates Significant Change In Chronic Wound Genomic Profile
Apligraf Demonstrates...
01/06/2017
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Column

Business Briefs
Business Briefs: Use Modifier -25 Sparingly
01/06/2017
Donna Cartwright, MPA, RHIA, CCS, RAC, FAHIMA
Donna Cartwright, MPA, RHIA, CCS, RAC...
Information regarding coding, coverage, and payment is provided as a service to our readers. Every effort has been made to ensure information accuracy. However, HMP Communications and the author do not represent, guarantee, or warranty that...
Information regarding coding, coverage, and payment is provided as a service to our readers. Every effort has been made to ensure information accuracy. However, HMP Communications and the author do not represent, guarantee, or warranty that...
Information regarding coding,...
01/06/2017
Today's Wound Clinic
Letter from the Editor
From The Editor
01/05/2017
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
It’s time for New Year’s resolutions. Rather than making empty promises to yourself to lose weight and exercise, you might want to consider the following resolutions: 
It’s time for New Year’s resolutions. Rather than making empty promises to yourself to lose weight and exercise, you might want to consider the following resolutions: 
It’s time for New Year’s...
01/05/2017
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HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance
HIPAA Privacy & Security Compliance: Dispelling Common Myths
01/05/2017
Roger Shindell, MS, CHPS, CISA
Roger Shindell, MS, CHPS, CISA
With the hundreds of pages that it takes to cover the breadth of HIPAA regulations, not to mention the regulations’ inherent complexity, it’s no wonder myths and rumors about compliance abound. Additionally, there are many “experts” who have...
With the hundreds of pages that it takes to cover the breadth of HIPAA regulations, not to mention the regulations’ inherent complexity, it’s no wonder myths and rumors about compliance abound. Additionally, there are many “experts” who have...
With the hundreds of pages that...
01/05/2017
Today's Wound Clinic
Let's be Frank
Measuring Success: Your Wound Clinic’s Year in Review
01/05/2017
Frank Aviles Jr., PT, CWS, FACCWS, CLT
Frank Aviles Jr., PT, CWS, FACCWS, CL...
To run a financially and clinically successful wound clinic, programmanagers must be willing to reassess their practice on a recurring basis. This article offers guidance on what to look for and consider. “It’s not the plan that is...
To run a financially and clinically successful wound clinic, programmanagers must be willing to reassess their practice on a recurring basis. This article offers guidance on what to look for and consider. “It’s not the plan that is...
To run a financially and...
01/05/2017
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Today’s Wound Clinic Appoints New Editorial Advisory Board Members
01/05/2017
Today’s Wound Clinic (TWC) is proud to announce the addition of seven new members to its editorial advisory board. The following appointments are effective as of Jan. 1.    Frank Aviles, Jr., PT, CWS, FACCWS, CLT 
Today’s Wound Clinic (TWC) is proud to announce the addition of seven new members to its editorial advisory board. The following appointments are effective as of Jan. 1.    Frank Aviles, Jr., PT, CWS, FACCWS, CLT 
Today’s Wound Clinic (TWC) is...
01/05/2017
Today's Wound Clinic
Skin Care & The Wound Clinic: Increasing Skin Nutrition with Small Molecule Technology to Promote Healing of Diabetic Foot Ulcers
01/05/2017
D. Elizabeth McCord, PhD, FAPWCA; Kyle D. Hilsabeck, PharmD; & Nancy B. Ray, PhD
D. Elizabeth McCord, PhD, FAPWCA; Kyl...
Diabetes mellitus has been described as “one of the main threats to human health of the 21st century.”1 According to the most recent (2012) estimate from the American Diabetes Association, 29.1 million Americans live with diabetes.2 The...
Diabetes mellitus has been described as “one of the main threats to human health of the 21st century.”1 According to the most recent (2012) estimate from the American Diabetes Association, 29.1 million Americans live with diabetes.2 The...
Diabetes mellitus has been...
01/05/2017
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Taking ‘Our Own Medicine’ Through the Nutritional Screening Quality Measure & Quality Payment Program
01/05/2017
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUH...
Eligible providers must be ready to report relevant measures in a quality-based healthcare system. They might want to start with nutritional screening.
Eligible providers must be ready to report relevant measures in a quality-based healthcare system. They might want to start with nutritional screening.
Eligible providers must be ready...
01/05/2017
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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
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
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
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
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
Shaun Carpenter MD, CWSP
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
Shaun Carpenter MD, CWSP, WMS
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
Monique L. Abner, MD, CWSP
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
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
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
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
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
Morgan McCoy
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
Shannon Kody, MD
Alex G. Ortega-Loayza, MD, MCR
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
Kathleen D. Schaum, MS
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
Kathleen D. Schaum, MS
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
Kathleen D. Schaum, MS
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
Kathleen D. Schaum, MS
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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