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Volume 12 Issue 8 - August 2018

News

Clinical and Industry News
Industry Insider News
08/06/2018
KeraNetics Merges With Microchips Biotech, Creates New Company
KeraNetics Merges With Microchips Biotech, Creates New Company
KeraNetics Merges With...
08/06/2018
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Column

Reader Reports
Physical Therapy in the Wound Clinic
08/06/2018
Editor’s Note: In response to requests for information on how to incorporate physical therapists into outpatient wound care, Today’s Wound Clinic surveyed readers seeking feedback on this topic. The purpose of the anonymous survey was to gain...
Editor’s Note: In response to requests for information on how to incorporate physical therapists into outpatient wound care, Today’s Wound Clinic surveyed readers seeking feedback on this topic. The purpose of the anonymous survey was to gain...
Editor’s Note: In response to...
08/06/2018
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Business Briefs
When Wound Care Marketing & Reimbursement Payments Collide
08/06/2018
Bad business can be worse than no business when it comes to the outpatient wound care clinic. This article discusses several problematic marketing scenarios that have caused reimbursement denials and/or repayments. Solutions are also...
Bad business can be worse than no business when it comes to the outpatient wound care clinic. This article discusses several problematic marketing scenarios that have caused reimbursement denials and/or repayments. Solutions are also...
Bad business can be worse than...
08/06/2018
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From the Editor
Are The Walls Closing In On Wound Care?
08/06/2018
My house has withstood five hurricanes and a flood event of Biblical proportions, but has been nearly destroyed twice by that most unpredictable of forces — indoor plumbing. I really didn’t think the problem was all that bad this time,...
My house has withstood five hurricanes and a flood event of Biblical proportions, but has been nearly destroyed twice by that most unpredictable of forces — indoor plumbing. I really didn’t think the problem was all that bad this time,...
My house has withstood five...
08/06/2018
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Legal Counsel
The Federal False Claims Act & the Ongoing Fight Against Healthcare Fraud
08/03/2018
The False Claims Act (FCA) is one of the United States government’s most powerful weapons to combat the perpetration of fraud against federal programs. While the FCA is applicable to claims submitted for payment by any type of government...
The False Claims Act (FCA) is one of the United States government’s most powerful weapons to combat the perpetration of fraud against federal programs. While the FCA is applicable to claims submitted for payment by any type of government...
The False Claims Act (FCA) is...
08/03/2018
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Patient Handouts
Offloading & Podiatric Care
08/03/2018
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...
08/03/2018
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Insights

From the Editor
Are The Walls Closing In On Wound Care?
08/06/2018
My house has withstood five hurricanes and a flood event of Biblical proportions, but has been nearly destroyed twice by that most unpredictable of forces — indoor plumbing. I really didn’t think the problem was all that bad this time,...
My house has withstood five hurricanes and a flood event of Biblical proportions, but has been nearly destroyed twice by that most unpredictable of forces — indoor plumbing. I really didn’t think the problem was all that bad this time,...
My house has withstood five...
08/06/2018
Today's Wound Clinic

Feature

Case Study
Wound Clinic Case Study: Podiatric Care
08/06/2018
With this new series, Today’s Wound Clinic offers wound care case studies directly from outpatient centers. Each entry will share the patient’s history, factors affecting healing, wound assessment, interventions, and overall findings. The...
With this new series, Today’s Wound Clinic offers wound care case studies directly from outpatient centers. Each entry will share the patient’s history, factors affecting healing, wound assessment, interventions, and overall findings. The...
With this new series, Today’s...
08/06/2018
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Podiatry
The Wound Care Clinician’s Podiatric Glossary
08/06/2018
Today’s Wound Clinic offers our readers this resource glossary of podiatry-related terms and conditions. Whether the podiatrist sees patients in the clinic or as a referral source, wound care clinicians are likely to encounter a variety of...
Today’s Wound Clinic offers our readers this resource glossary of podiatry-related terms and conditions. Whether the podiatrist sees patients in the clinic or as a referral source, wound care clinicians are likely to encounter a variety of...
Today’s Wound Clinic offers our...
08/06/2018
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Feature
Endovascular Health 101 for the Outpatient Wound Clinic
08/03/2018
Appropriate endovascular care can begin in the wound center with proper assessment and testing for vascular comorbidities. This article discusses current guidance, examines emerging trends, and offers a primer on helpful jargon commonly used...
Appropriate endovascular care can begin in the wound center with proper assessment and testing for vascular comorbidities. This article discusses current guidance, examines emerging trends, and offers a primer on helpful jargon commonly used...
Appropriate endovascular care...
08/03/2018
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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
Today's Wound Clinic
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
Today's Wound Clinic
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
Today's Wound Clinic
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
Today's Wound Clinic
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
Today's Wound Clinic
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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