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Volume 6 Issue 6 - August 2012

Online Exclusive: The Medicare Trust Fund: Should Clinicians Be Worried?
08/14/2012
Depending on how you calculate the effect of the Affordable Care Act, Medicare will go bankrupt in either 2024 or 2016, perhaps sooner. Really?
Depending on how you calculate the effect of the Affordable Care Act, Medicare will go bankrupt in either 2024 or 2016, perhaps sooner. Really?
Depending on how you calculate...
08/14/2012
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SAWC Spring 2012 Scholarship Winners
08/14/2012
  This past March, the North American Center for Continuing Medical Education, LLC and the Symposium on Advanced Wound Care announced the inaugural class of five scholarship winners selected in cooperation with several prominent wound care...
  This past March, the North American Center for Continuing Medical Education, LLC and the Symposium on Advanced Wound Care announced the inaugural class of five scholarship winners selected in cooperation with several prominent wound care...
  This past March, the North...
08/14/2012
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Conference Connection: SAWC Fall 2012
08/14/2012
  With more than two decades of providing the interdisciplinary wound care community with an opportunity gather, network, learn, and socialize, the Symposium on Advanced Wound Care (SAWC) has become the largest wound care conference in the...
  With more than two decades of providing the interdisciplinary wound care community with an opportunity gather, network, learn, and socialize, the Symposium on Advanced Wound Care (SAWC) has become the largest wound care conference in the...
  With more than two decades of...
08/14/2012
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Signs of an Impending Audit: Are You Waving Red Flags?
08/14/2012
Editor’s note: The introduction to this article was contributed by Des Bell, DPM, CWS. For information on further internal audit topics and the documentation found during an audit, see “Business Briefs” on page 6.   The “business of...
Editor’s note: The introduction to this article was contributed by Des Bell, DPM, CWS. For information on further internal audit topics and the documentation found during an audit, see “Business Briefs” on page 6.   The “business of...
Editor’s note: The introduction...
08/14/2012
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The Coming Audit Storm
08/14/2012
  Those of us on the Gulf Coast know that even on an otherwise beautiful, sunny day, complacency about the weather can be dangerous. With that, anyone who runs a business or owns a home near the coast is encouraged to have a...
  Those of us on the Gulf Coast know that even on an otherwise beautiful, sunny day, complacency about the weather can be dangerous. With that, anyone who runs a business or owns a home near the coast is encouraged to have a...
  Those of us on the Gulf Coast...
08/14/2012
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The ABCs of Wound Care Auditing
08/14/2012
  Although most clinicians are committed to excellence in patient care and honesty in service charges, the actions of unscrupulous practitioners and companies are bringing increased scrutiny on everyone.   In February, federal authorities in...
  Although most clinicians are committed to excellence in patient care and honesty in service charges, the actions of unscrupulous practitioners and companies are bringing increased scrutiny on everyone.   In February, federal authorities in...
  Although most clinicians are...
08/14/2012
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Feature

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Industry Insider: An Inside Look at PathoGenius Laboratories
08/14/2012
An interview with John P. Kennedy, RPh, PhD, clinical advisor, PathoGenius Laboratories TWC: How did you enter wound care? JK: My career started as a researcher in the pharmaceutical industry. I did not have a direct link to wound care in...
An interview with John P. Kennedy, RPh, PhD, clinical advisor, PathoGenius Laboratories TWC: How did you enter wound care? JK: My career started as a researcher in the pharmaceutical industry. I did not have a direct link to wound care in...
An interview with John P....
08/14/2012
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Clinician's Report
Clinician’s Report: Management Solutions
08/14/2012
The Center for Wound Healing Inc. WEBSITE: www.centerwh.com CONTACT: 855-443-2532 LOCATION: Tarrytown, NY FOUNDED: 1999 COMPANY DESCRIPTION: The Center for Wound Healing Inc. (CFWH) develops and manages wound care centers that offer...
The Center for Wound Healing Inc. WEBSITE: www.centerwh.com CONTACT: 855-443-2532 LOCATION: Tarrytown, NY FOUNDED: 1999 COMPANY DESCRIPTION: The Center for Wound Healing Inc. (CFWH) develops and manages wound care centers that offer...
The Center for Wound Healing...
08/14/2012
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Column

Business Briefs
Business Briefs: How to Conduct Internal Audits in the Wound Care Clinic
08/14/2012
Information regarding coding, coverage, and payment is provided as a service to our readers. Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information. HMP Communications and the authors do not represent, guarantee, or warranty...
Information regarding coding, coverage, and payment is provided as a service to our readers. Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information. HMP Communications and the authors do not represent, guarantee, or warranty...
Information regarding coding,...
08/14/2012
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Letter from the Editor
From the Editor
08/14/2012
  As you have undoubtedly heard, the Supreme Court recently upheld the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) by a vote of 5-4. While the 193-page opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts is full of surprises, one glaring...
  As you have undoubtedly heard, the Supreme Court recently upheld the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) by a vote of 5-4. While the 193-page opinion written by Chief Justice John Roberts is full of surprises, one glaring...
  As you have undoubtedly heard,...
08/14/2012
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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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