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Volume 12 Issue 2 - February 2018

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Videos
Video Series: 5 Mistakes When Dealing With Wound Clinic Vendors
02/02/2018
In this new video series, Rafael Mazuz, MBA, managing director of Diligence Wound Care Global LLC, examines the various mistakes that outpatient wound care clinicians and administrators make when working with vendors and other industry...
In this new video series, Rafael Mazuz, MBA, managing director of Diligence Wound Care Global LLC, examines the various mistakes that outpatient wound care clinicians and administrators make when working with vendors and other industry...
In this new video series, Rafael...
02/02/2018
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Commentary
Commentary: Wound Clinics & Vascular Specialists Have Unique Opportunity to Improve Venous Disease
02/02/2018
As a physician specializing in the management and treatment of venous disease for the past 21 years, and as a leader in the American College of Phlebology, I have witnessed significant changes in how care is provided to patients living with...
As a physician specializing in the management and treatment of venous disease for the past 21 years, and as a leader in the American College of Phlebology, I have witnessed significant changes in how care is provided to patients living with...
As a physician specializing in...
02/02/2018
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Feature

Infographic
Industry Insider News
02/02/2018
Study Identifies Successful Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs 
Study Identifies Successful Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs 
Study Identifies...
02/02/2018
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Infographic
Relationship-Building Between The Wound Clinic & Vein Center: Q&A Session
02/02/2018
In this exclusive interview, Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM, medical director of St. Luke’s Wound Clinic, The Woodlands, TX, and Today’s Wound Clinic clinical editor, speaks with Joseph T. Jenkins, MD, FACS, RPVI, RPhS, RVT, ABVLM...
In this exclusive interview, Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM, medical director of St. Luke’s Wound Clinic, The Woodlands, TX, and Today’s Wound Clinic clinical editor, speaks with Joseph T. Jenkins, MD, FACS, RPVI, RPhS, RVT, ABVLM...
In this exclusive interview,...
02/02/2018
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News

News
Wound Clinic News & Notes
02/02/2018
Maine Hospital Launches Wound Care Clinic
Maine Hospital Launches Wound Care Clinic
Maine Hospital Launches Wound...
02/02/2018
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Column

Business Briefs
2018 NCCI Policy Manual & Edits
02/02/2018
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 and the author do not represent, guarantee, or warranty that coding,...
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 and the author do not represent, guarantee, or warranty that coding,...
Information regarding coding,...
02/02/2018
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Letter from the Editor
The Need for Real Venous Ulcer Data
02/02/2018
On July 20, 2016, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) convened a Medicare Evidence Development and Coverage Advisory Committee (MedCAC) meeting to discuss recommendations regarding treatment strategies for patients living with...
On July 20, 2016, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) convened a Medicare Evidence Development and Coverage Advisory Committee (MedCAC) meeting to discuss recommendations regarding treatment strategies for patients living with...
On July 20, 2016, the Centers...
02/02/2018
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Let's be Frank
Let`s Be Frank: Seeking Advice Can Be The Foundation of Optimal Wound Care
02/02/2018
In this month’s column, Frank discusses chronic venous insufficiency, a condition that’s cited as a commonly encountered problem that many clinicians fail to treat effectively.   “The truth of the matter is that you always know the right...
In this month’s column, Frank discusses chronic venous insufficiency, a condition that’s cited as a commonly encountered problem that many clinicians fail to treat effectively.   “The truth of the matter is that you always know the right...
In this month’s column, Frank...
02/02/2018
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Patient Handouts
Patient Handout: Chronic Venous Insufficiency
02/02/2018
Today’s Wound Clinic offers our readers this informative clinical guide to review and pass along to their patients for purposes of assisting in their education.
Today’s Wound Clinic offers our readers this informative clinical guide to review and pass along to their patients for purposes of assisting in their education.
Today’s Wound Clinic offers our...
02/02/2018
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Venous Ulcers: The Evidence for Intervention
02/02/2018
Even with optimal treatment of venous ulcers, healing may be prolonged and/or ineffective, and recurrence rates remain quite high. How should wound care clinicians and vascular specialists collaborate with care planning?   
Even with optimal treatment of venous ulcers, healing may be prolonged and/or ineffective, and recurrence rates remain quite high. How should wound care clinicians and vascular specialists collaborate with care planning?   
Even with optimal treatment of...
02/02/2018
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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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