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Volume 11 Issue 9 - September 2017

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CMS News Center
09/06/2017
CMS Helping Texas & Louisiana With Hurricane Harvey Recovery  Numerous efforts by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are underway to support communities in Texas and Louisiana in response to Hurricane Harvey. Actions include...
CMS Helping Texas & Louisiana With Hurricane Harvey Recovery  Numerous efforts by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are underway to support communities in Texas and Louisiana in response to Hurricane Harvey. Actions include...
CMS Helping Texas & Louisiana...
09/06/2017
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News
Wound Clinic News & Notes
09/06/2017
Wound Center Joins Management Company Hutchinson (KS) Regional Medical Center has announced a new partnership with management company Wound Care Advantage (WCA) for its wound care and hyperbaric center.  The wound center was established in...
Wound Center Joins Management Company Hutchinson (KS) Regional Medical Center has announced a new partnership with management company Wound Care Advantage (WCA) for its wound care and hyperbaric center.  The wound center was established in...
Wound Center Joins Management...
09/06/2017
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Department

Editorial Board & Staff News
Editorial Board & Staff News
09/06/2017
Schaum Announces Retirement, Celebrates 50 Years of Work & Marriage
Schaum Announces Retirement, Celebrates 50 Years of Work & Marriage
Schaum Announces Retirement,...
09/06/2017
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Feature

Infographic
Industry Insider News
09/06/2017
Acelity Announces New International Region President Acelity,™ San Antonio, TX, a global advanced wound care company, has named Ramesh Subrahmanian as president for the international region and as a member of the senior leadership team....
Acelity Announces New International Region President Acelity,™ San Antonio, TX, a global advanced wound care company, has named Ramesh Subrahmanian as president for the international region and as a member of the senior leadership team....
Acelity Announces New...
09/06/2017
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Column

HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance
The Dirty Little Secret About Medical Device Security
09/06/2017
What are the rules regarding IMD safety? That all depends on whom you ask. 
What are the rules regarding IMD safety? That all depends on whom you ask. 
What are the rules regarding IMD...
09/06/2017
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Business Briefs
New Medicare Cards: What, Why, When, & How to Prepare
09/06/2017
Believe it or not, all Medicare beneficiaries will be receiving new Medicare identification cards. Yes, more than 57.7 million Americans will receive a new card! The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will randomly assign all...
Believe it or not, all Medicare beneficiaries will be receiving new Medicare identification cards. Yes, more than 57.7 million Americans will receive a new card! The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will randomly assign all...
Believe it or not, all Medicare...
09/06/2017
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Letter from the Editor
From the Editor
09/06/2017
Come October, our industry should have early access to a study that I hope will change the national conversation about wound care.
Come October, our industry should have early access to a study that I hope will change the national conversation about wound care.
Come October, our industry...
09/06/2017
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Sepsis
Reducing Costs While Saving Lives: Appropriate Sepsis Recognition & Treatment
09/06/2017
The general public is rather uneducated on the harsh reality of sepsis syndrome. And that includes many healthcare providers. This article will educate wound care clinicians on the signs and symptoms of sepsis and share effective treatment...
The general public is rather uneducated on the harsh reality of sepsis syndrome. And that includes many healthcare providers. This article will educate wound care clinicians on the signs and symptoms of sepsis and share effective treatment...
The general public is rather...
09/06/2017
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Sales
Crossing the Legal Sales Line: Do You Know the Warning Signs?
09/06/2017
When it comes to trying new products on wound clinic patients, “creative” relationships may tend to emerge between clinics and manufacturers. But what are the questions that healthcare providers should raise when determining what might be...
When it comes to trying new products on wound clinic patients, “creative” relationships may tend to emerge between clinics and manufacturers. But what are the questions that healthcare providers should raise when determining what might be...
When it comes to trying new...
09/06/2017
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Pressure Injuries
Pressure Ulcer Litigation: What is the Wound Center’s Liability?
09/06/2017
The prevalence of pressure ulcers across all care settings is significant and expected to increase in the foreseeable future due to the aging population. As such, clinicians practicing in outpatient wound centers will be challenged with an...
The prevalence of pressure ulcers across all care settings is significant and expected to increase in the foreseeable future due to the aging population. As such, clinicians practicing in outpatient wound centers will be challenged with an...
The prevalence of pressure...
09/06/2017
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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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