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Volume 12 Issue 3 - March 2018

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CMS News Center
03/01/2018
CMS Proposes Opioid Prescribing Limits for Medicare Enrollees New regulations recently proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) would put limits on pharmacies’ filling of opioid prescriptions for Medicare...
CMS Proposes Opioid Prescribing Limits for Medicare Enrollees New regulations recently proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) would put limits on pharmacies’ filling of opioid prescriptions for Medicare...
CMS Proposes Opioid Prescribing...
03/01/2018
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News
Wound Clinic News & Notes
03/01/2018
Indiana Hospital Expansion to Include Wound Care Center Officials at Franciscan Health Lafayette (IN) East, Lafayette, IN, have announced plans for a $60-million expansion project that will include a new outpatient wound care clinic.
Indiana Hospital Expansion to Include Wound Care Center Officials at Franciscan Health Lafayette (IN) East, Lafayette, IN, have announced plans for a $60-million expansion project that will include a new outpatient wound care clinic.
Indiana Hospital Expansion to...
03/01/2018
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Clinical and Industry News
Industry Insider News
03/01/2018
OIG Releases HBOT Compliance Report   
OIG Releases HBOT Compliance Report   
OIG Releases HBOT Compliance...
03/01/2018
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Clinical and Industry News
Industry Insider News
03/01/2018
OIG Releases HBOT Compliance Report   
OIG Releases HBOT Compliance Report   
OIG Releases HBOT Compliance...
03/01/2018
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Department

Editorial Board & Staff News
TWC Editorial Board & Staff News
03/01/2018
Aviles, Shindell Collaborate at Wound Care Roundtable Event
Aviles, Shindell Collaborate at Wound Care Roundtable Event
Aviles, Shindell Collaborate at...
03/01/2018
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Exhibitor Preview
SAWC Exhibitor Preview: Symposium on Advanced Wound Care & The Wound Healing Society Meeting
03/01/2018
As the leading multidisciplinary conference on wound care and healing, the Symposium on Advanced Wound Care (SAWC) delivers quality evidence-based wound management and prevention education for the entire wound care team. Even after 31 years,...
As the leading multidisciplinary conference on wound care and healing, the Symposium on Advanced Wound Care (SAWC) delivers quality evidence-based wound management and prevention education for the entire wound care team. Even after 31 years,...
As the leading multidisciplinary...
03/01/2018
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HBOT
The New Near Future of Hyperbaric Medicine Regulation: Targeted Probe and Educate
03/01/2018
It is well known in the hyperbaric community that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented a prior authorization model in 2015 for non-emergent hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) in Illinois, Michigan, and New Jersey. This...
It is well known in the hyperbaric community that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented a prior authorization model in 2015 for non-emergent hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) in Illinois, Michigan, and New Jersey. This...
It is well known in the...
03/01/2018
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HBOT
Ethical Considerations for Approved & Off-Label Use of Hyperbaric Medicine
03/01/2018
Guidelines exist for the ethical off-label use of HBOT. An institutional review board- approved protocol is not required for case- by-case decisions to use HBOT off-label. It is possible to utilize HBOT unethically for approved indications....
Guidelines exist for the ethical off-label use of HBOT. An institutional review board- approved protocol is not required for case- by-case decisions to use HBOT off-label. It is possible to utilize HBOT unethically for approved indications....
Guidelines exist for the ethical...
03/01/2018
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HBOT
Hyperbaric Medicine Quality Reporting: Building an Ark to Ensure Survival
03/01/2018
Will wound care providers get on board with HBOT quality reporting before the flood waters get too high? That remains to be seen. 
Will wound care providers get on board with HBOT quality reporting before the flood waters get too high? That remains to be seen. 
Will wound care providers get on...
03/01/2018
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Insights

Commentary
Update on Research Associated With HBOT Utilization
03/01/2018
Editor’s Note: This commentary piece is published in place of our regularly occurring From The Editor message.
Editor’s Note: This commentary piece is published in place of our regularly occurring From The Editor message.
Editor’s Note: This commentary...
03/01/2018
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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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