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Volume 11 Issue 5 - May 2017

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Wound Clinic News & Notes
05/02/2017
Iowa Hospital Opens New Wound Center Baum Harmon Mercy Hospital, Primghar, IA, has opened a new outpatient wound care clinic. The hospital is a partner with Mercy Medical Center-Sioux City. Amanda Rausch, NP, a member of the staff at the...
Iowa Hospital Opens New Wound Center Baum Harmon Mercy Hospital, Primghar, IA, has opened a new outpatient wound care clinic. The hospital is a partner with Mercy Medical Center-Sioux City. Amanda Rausch, NP, a member of the staff at the...
Iowa Hospital Opens New Wound...
05/02/2017
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Insights

Product Spotlight
Product News
05/02/2017
Swift Medical Announces U.S. Product Launch
Swift Medical Announces U.S. Product Launch
Swift Medical Announces U.S....
05/02/2017
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Commentary
Utilizing Cell Phones to Protect Wound Clinic Photos
05/02/2017
Anyone on staff in the outpatient wound clinic setting has likely experienced the clamoring for photographs and cameras that can occur at the end of a shift. The misplacement or outright loss of a camera potentially containing photographs and...
Anyone on staff in the outpatient wound clinic setting has likely experienced the clamoring for photographs and cameras that can occur at the end of a shift. The misplacement or outright loss of a camera potentially containing photographs and...
Anyone on staff in the...
05/02/2017
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Feature

Infographic
Industry Insider News
05/02/2017
Amniox Earns Supply Contract With U.S. Military
Amniox Earns Supply Contract With U.S. Military
Amniox Earns Supply...
05/02/2017
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CMS News Center
05/02/2017
Mapping Medicare Disparities Tool: Identify Disparities in Chronic Disease
Mapping Medicare Disparities Tool: Identify Disparities in Chronic Disease
Mapping Medicare Disparities...
05/02/2017
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Mental Health
Missed Opportunities for Identifying Mental Health Needs Among Patients in Primary & Wound Care Settings
05/02/2017
Healthcare providers in all settings should be assessing and evaluating the mental health status of their patients and referring them for specialty care as needed. This article will help wound care clinicians gauge the signs and symptoms of...
Healthcare providers in all settings should be assessing and evaluating the mental health status of their patients and referring them for specialty care as needed. This article will help wound care clinicians gauge the signs and symptoms of...
Healthcare providers in all...
05/02/2017
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Telemedicine
Telemedicine Solutions for Chronic Wound Management: Bridging the Gap Between Wound Expert Supply & Demand
05/02/2017
The utilization of telemedicine will offer clinical and financial incentives for wound clinics as the U.S. healthcare system continues its transition to a value-based structure.    
The utilization of telemedicine will offer clinical and financial incentives for wound clinics as the U.S. healthcare system continues its transition to a value-based structure.    
The utilization of telemedicine...
05/02/2017
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Column

Let's be Frank
Taking Accountability for Researching & Implementing Evidence-Based Medicine
05/02/2017
The wound care industry continues to change at a rapid pace. Sometimes, it may seem impossible for clinicians to remain current on the most recent education and best practices when considering all the challenges we encounter while managing...
The wound care industry continues to change at a rapid pace. Sometimes, it may seem impossible for clinicians to remain current on the most recent education and best practices when considering all the challenges we encounter while managing...
The wound care industry...
05/02/2017
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Business Briefs
Direct Supervision in the Provider-Based Department: What’s Required?
05/02/2017
Seventeen years ago, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented the Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) for hospital-based outpatient departments (HOPDs) such as the emergency department (ED) and the HOPD...
Seventeen years ago, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented the Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) for hospital-based outpatient departments (HOPDs) such as the emergency department (ED) and the HOPD...
Seventeen years ago, the Centers...
05/02/2017
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Letter from the Editor
Good News for HBOT
05/02/2017
There is big news for wound care and hyperbaric medicine professionals and, for once, the news is good. The Benchmarks for Measures Included in the Performance Year 2016 Quality and Resource Use Reports document is now available from the...
There is big news for wound care and hyperbaric medicine professionals and, for once, the news is good. The Benchmarks for Measures Included in the Performance Year 2016 Quality and Resource Use Reports document is now available from the...
There is big news for wound care...
05/02/2017
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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
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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