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Volume 11 Issue 8 - August 2017

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Product Spotlight
Product News
08/09/2017
AlloSource Releases New Product to AlloFuse Line AlloSource (Centennial, CO), one of the nation's largest providers of cartilage, bone, skin, soft tissue, and cellular allografts for surgical procedures and wound care, has announced the...
AlloSource Releases New Product to AlloFuse Line AlloSource (Centennial, CO), one of the nation's largest providers of cartilage, bone, skin, soft tissue, and cellular allografts for surgical procedures and wound care, has announced the...
AlloSource Releases New Product...
08/09/2017
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News

News
Wound Clinic News & Notes
08/09/2017
New Wound Clinic Opens In California The Henry Mayo Newhall Wound Care Clinic has officially opened its doors in Valencia, CA. Plans for the facility have developed over the past 10 years, according to a report on www.hometownstation.com....
New Wound Clinic Opens In California The Henry Mayo Newhall Wound Care Clinic has officially opened its doors in Valencia, CA. Plans for the facility have developed over the past 10 years, according to a report on www.hometownstation.com....
New Wound Clinic Opens In...
08/09/2017
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CMS News Center
08/09/2017
Application of QPP Hardship Exception During 2017 Transition Year Now Open  The Quality Payment Program’s (QPP’s) hardship exception application for the 2017 transition year is now available on the QPP website. Clinicians and groups eligible...
Application of QPP Hardship Exception During 2017 Transition Year Now Open  The Quality Payment Program’s (QPP’s) hardship exception application for the 2017 transition year is now available on the QPP website. Clinicians and groups eligible...
Application of QPP Hardship...
08/09/2017
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Skin Care & The Wound Clinic
Improving Wound Healing & Aging Skin With Small Molecule Skin Nutrition
08/08/2017
It’s estimated that annual wound care costs in the United States exceed $15 billion for the aging population,1 making improvements in wound care for this patient population a healthcare priority.
It’s estimated that annual wound care costs in the United States exceed $15 billion for the aging population,1 making improvements in wound care for this patient population a healthcare priority.
It’s estimated that annual wound...
08/08/2017
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CMS
Capturing Quality Wound Care Under MIPS
08/08/2017
Physicians are expected to improve their cost-of-care outcomes to score better in the Quality Payment Program. But how does that translate for wound care doctors? This article offers the concept of frontloading wound care in an attempt to...
Physicians are expected to improve their cost-of-care outcomes to score better in the Quality Payment Program. But how does that translate for wound care doctors? This article offers the concept of frontloading wound care in an attempt to...
Physicians are expected to...
08/08/2017
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Feature

Infographic
Industry Insider News
08/09/2017
Organogenesis Inc. Sponsors APMA Education Programs, Annual Scientific Meeting Organogenesis Inc. has been named a 2017 sponsor of the American Podiatric Medical Association (APMA), including support for three of the APMA’s leading...
Organogenesis Inc. Sponsors APMA Education Programs, Annual Scientific Meeting Organogenesis Inc. has been named a 2017 sponsor of the American Podiatric Medical Association (APMA), including support for three of the APMA’s leading...
Organogenesis Inc. Sponsors APMA...
08/09/2017
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Department

Editorial Board & Staff News
TWC Editorial Board & Staff News
08/09/2017
Aviles Teaches Complete Lymphedema Certification courses
Aviles Teaches Complete Lymphedema Certification courses
Aviles Teaches Complete...
08/09/2017
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Column

Let's be Frank
Patient Advocacy: Are We Measuring Success by Intentions or Actions?
08/09/2017
Most healthcare providers are inclined to refer to themselves as “patient advocates.” But, to what lengths would you say you truly go for your wound care patients? Do you always ensure that each patient understands what the agenda is during...
Most healthcare providers are inclined to refer to themselves as “patient advocates.” But, to what lengths would you say you truly go for your wound care patients? Do you always ensure that each patient understands what the agenda is during...
Most healthcare providers are...
08/09/2017
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Business Briefs
Working in a Wound Care Provider-Based Department: The Medical Director’s Perspective
08/08/2017
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,...
08/08/2017
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Letter from the Editor
Wound Care is the Data Underdog
08/08/2017
I am re-reading the book David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell because, as an underdog, the field of wound care must develop a strategy to survive healthcare reform. We do not have the...
I am re-reading the book David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell because, as an underdog, the field of wound care must develop a strategy to survive healthcare reform. We do not have the...
I am re-reading the book David...
08/08/2017
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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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