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Volume 12 Issue 1 - January 2018

Podcast
Episode 15: New Technologies in Wound Care - Digital Applications & Patient Care
01/17/2018
In this podcast episode, Stephen G. Bergquist, MD, CWSP, discusses new and emerging technologies and their impacts on the wound care industry with guest Joe Smith, technology innovation leader at Healogics Inc.
In this podcast episode, Stephen G. Bergquist, MD, CWSP, discusses new and emerging technologies and their impacts on the wound care industry with guest Joe Smith, technology innovation leader at Healogics Inc.
In this podcast episode, Stephen...
01/17/2018
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Industry Insider News
01/05/2018
FDA Approves New Treatment for DFUs The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced its approval for the marketing of what is being described as the first shock wave device intended to treat diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) — the...
FDA Approves New Treatment for DFUs The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced its approval for the marketing of what is being described as the first shock wave device intended to treat diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) — the...
FDA Approves New Treatment for...
01/05/2018
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DICOM
Digital Technology & Patient Assessment: Understanding DICOM Communication in the Wound Care Clinic
01/04/2018
Establishing and maintaining effective collaboration and communication between hospital departments is an ongoing initiative for any healthcare system, especially when considering the push toward quality-based reimbursement. Historically, we...
Establishing and maintaining effective collaboration and communication between hospital departments is an ongoing initiative for any healthcare system, especially when considering the push toward quality-based reimbursement. Historically, we...
Establishing and maintaining...
01/04/2018
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Technology
Will Mobile Apps Bring Wound Care Technology to the 'Cutting Edge'?
01/04/2018
For wound care providers and other clinicians, 2017 continued to bring about a chaotic storm of healthcare reform based on quality measures, data registry requirements, and documentation standards.
For wound care providers and other clinicians, 2017 continued to bring about a chaotic storm of healthcare reform based on quality measures, data registry requirements, and documentation standards.
For wound care providers and...
01/04/2018
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News

News
Wound Clinic News & Notes
01/05/2018
Oswego Community Hospital Opens New Year With New Clinic A new outpatient wound care clinic is among the services being offered at a new comprehensive care center at Oswego (KS) Community Hospital. According to a report by the Parsons...
Oswego Community Hospital Opens New Year With New Clinic A new outpatient wound care clinic is among the services being offered at a new comprehensive care center at Oswego (KS) Community Hospital. According to a report by the Parsons...
Oswego Community Hospital Opens...
01/05/2018
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Column

Business Briefs
New Wound Care ICD-10-CM Codes for Fiscal Year 2018 & Review of Frequently Forgotten Codes
01/05/2018
Editor’s Note: Kathleen D. Schaum, MS, author of Business Briefs, will be on extended vacation through early 2018. While she’s away, we will feature guest authors in this column space. Ms. Schaum will return to her column beginning with the...
Editor’s Note: Kathleen D. Schaum, MS, author of Business Briefs, will be on extended vacation through early 2018. While she’s away, we will feature guest authors in this column space. Ms. Schaum will return to her column beginning with the...
Editor’s Note: Kathleen D....
01/05/2018
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Letter from the Editor
My Quality Measure To-Do List
01/05/2018
As we ring in 2018, I’ve just reviewed my quality measure performance and I’m making my final choices regarding which measures I will report. The vast majority of medical practitioners became subject to the Merit-Based Incentive Payment...
As we ring in 2018, I’ve just reviewed my quality measure performance and I’m making my final choices regarding which measures I will report. The vast majority of medical practitioners became subject to the Merit-Based Incentive Payment...
As we ring in 2018, I’ve just...
01/05/2018
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HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance
Rise of the Cyber Criminal in 2018: HIPAA Security Does Not Stop With Compliance
01/04/2018
Reports of cyber attacks continue to be prevalent. However, healthcare providers may be unaware of a few important facts:  Healthcare, as an industry, sees more data breaches than any other.1 Criminal attacks are the leading cause of...
Reports of cyber attacks continue to be prevalent. However, healthcare providers may be unaware of a few important facts:  Healthcare, as an industry, sees more data breaches than any other.1 Criminal attacks are the leading cause of...
Reports of cyber attacks...
01/04/2018
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Technology Pulse
Technology Pulse
01/04/2018
Providers’ Attitudes Impact Patients’ Technology Adoption
Providers’ Attitudes Impact Patients’ Technology Adoption
Providers’ Attitudes Impact...
01/04/2018
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Insights

Commentary
Should Patients Buy Offloading Footwear From You?
01/05/2018
It is a challenging, common situation: wound care patients require offloading devices for diabetic and/or neuropathic plantar ulcers, but there is no insurance coverage for those items.  You explain that they will bear the cost of the...
It is a challenging, common situation: wound care patients require offloading devices for diabetic and/or neuropathic plantar ulcers, but there is no insurance coverage for those items.  You explain that they will bear the cost of the...
It is a challenging, common...
01/05/2018
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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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