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Volume 12 Issue 5 - May 2018

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Reader Reports
Wound Care Demographics & Staffing
05/08/2018
Question 1: Which of the following is included in the wound-care-visits statistic? (Select all that apply.) A. One count for each inpatient visit (41.3%) B. One count for each visit to the outpatient wound clinic (91.3%) C. Nursing home...
Question 1: Which of the following is included in the wound-care-visits statistic? (Select all that apply.) A. One count for each inpatient visit (41.3%) B. One count for each visit to the outpatient wound clinic (91.3%) C. Nursing home...
Question 1: Which of the...
05/08/2018
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Business Briefs
Frequently Asked Questions Surrounding Medicare’s Targeted Probe and Educate Review Program
05/08/2018
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,...
05/08/2018
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From the Editor
I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Ham
05/08/2018
My new hobby is taking pictures of used dressings. Based on my observations, it seems like it is more difficult to control wound bioburden today. Is it just my imagination, or is the drainage from chronic wounds more and more resembling...
My new hobby is taking pictures of used dressings. Based on my observations, it seems like it is more difficult to control wound bioburden today. Is it just my imagination, or is the drainage from chronic wounds more and more resembling...
My new hobby is taking pictures...
05/08/2018
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News

Clinical and Industry News
Industry Insider News
05/08/2018
HHS Sponsors Largest Exercise for Moving Infectious-Disease Patients The ability to move patients who are living with highly infectious diseases safely and securely to regional treatment centers was put to the test April 10-12, when the...
HHS Sponsors Largest Exercise for Moving Infectious-Disease Patients The ability to move patients who are living with highly infectious diseases safely and securely to regional treatment centers was put to the test April 10-12, when the...
HHS Sponsors Largest Exercise...
05/08/2018
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Insights

From the Editor
I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Ham
05/08/2018
My new hobby is taking pictures of used dressings. Based on my observations, it seems like it is more difficult to control wound bioburden today. Is it just my imagination, or is the drainage from chronic wounds more and more resembling...
My new hobby is taking pictures of used dressings. Based on my observations, it seems like it is more difficult to control wound bioburden today. Is it just my imagination, or is the drainage from chronic wounds more and more resembling...
My new hobby is taking pictures...
05/08/2018
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Reimbursement
Wound Care Nets Reimbursement 'Wins' With Bipartisan Budget Act
05/08/2018
The signing of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 that took place Feb. 9 received much in the way of national media coverage because it ended the United States’ governmental shutdown. However, the act also provided the wound care industry some...
The signing of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 that took place Feb. 9 received much in the way of national media coverage because it ended the United States’ governmental shutdown. However, the act also provided the wound care industry some...
The signing of the Bipartisan...
05/08/2018
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Feature
Doctors Aren’t The Worst Patients, We’re The Busiest
05/08/2018
You have probably heard the adage  “doctors make the worst patients.” This sentiment may rank up there with another general truth that states, “he who acts as his own lawyer has a fool for a client.”  If you don’t yet see the connection that...
You have probably heard the adage  “doctors make the worst patients.” This sentiment may rank up there with another general truth that states, “he who acts as his own lawyer has a fool for a client.”  If you don’t yet see the connection that...
You have probably heard the...
05/08/2018
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Infected Wounds
Emerging Innovations in the Prevention & Treatment of Chronic Wound Infections
05/08/2018
The burden of chronic wounds in United States continues to mount for our healthcare system. Recent cost estimates in this country are near $25 billion per year with 6.5 million patients treated annually.1 Chronic wounds, defined as those that...
The burden of chronic wounds in United States continues to mount for our healthcare system. Recent cost estimates in this country are near $25 billion per year with 6.5 million patients treated annually.1 Chronic wounds, defined as those that...
The burden of chronic wounds in...
05/08/2018
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Infections
Management of Skin & Skin-Structure Infections in the Outpatient Clinic: An Update for Wound Care Providers
05/08/2018
Skin and skin-structure infections (SSSIs) result in significant morbidity in both the community and hospital settings.1 Most often, SSSIs are caused by Gram-positive bacteria, such as Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pyogenes, and other...
Skin and skin-structure infections (SSSIs) result in significant morbidity in both the community and hospital settings.1 Most often, SSSIs are caused by Gram-positive bacteria, such as Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pyogenes, and other...
Skin and skin-structure...
05/08/2018
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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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