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Volume 6 Issue 7 - September 2012

Feature

Clinician's Report
Clinician’s Report: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT)
09/11/2012
Company: Sechrist Industries Inc. Location: Anaheim, CA Website: www.sechristusa.com Contact: 800-SECHRIST; info@sechristusa.com Founded: 1973 Product Line Description: Sechrist Industries has a few main product lines: hyperbaric oxygen...
Company: Sechrist Industries Inc. Location: Anaheim, CA Website: www.sechristusa.com Contact: 800-SECHRIST; info@sechristusa.com Founded: 1973 Product Line Description: Sechrist Industries has a few main product lines: hyperbaric oxygen...
Company: Sechrist Industries...
09/11/2012
Today's Wound Clinic
News Update
TWC News Update
09/11/2012
School of Medicine Establishes Warriner Scholarship   Barry University’s School of Podiatric Medicine will be using a $25,000 donation by school dean Jeffrey Jensen, MD, and his wife Celia to launch the Dr. Robert Warriner, III Scholarship...
School of Medicine Establishes Warriner Scholarship   Barry University’s School of Podiatric Medicine will be using a $25,000 donation by school dean Jeffrey Jensen, MD, and his wife Celia to launch the Dr. Robert Warriner, III Scholarship...
School of Medicine Establishes...
09/11/2012
Today's Wound Clinic
In Memoriam: Remembering Robert A. Warriner III, MD: A Tribute to a True Leader
09/11/2012
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
  Robert A. Warriner III, MD, died Aug. 2, at the age of 62 after being diagnosed with multiple myeloma six years ago. During the final days of his illness, I visited Bob in the intensive care unit at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX....
  Robert A. Warriner III, MD, died Aug. 2, at the age of 62 after being diagnosed with multiple myeloma six years ago. During the final days of his illness, I visited Bob in the intensive care unit at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX....
  Robert A. Warriner III, MD,...
09/11/2012
Today's Wound Clinic
Telemedicine: The Key to Opening the Door to Wound Closure in Rural Communities?
09/11/2012
Harriett B. Loehne, PT, DPT, CWS, FACCWS
Harriett B. Loehne, PT, DPT, CWS, FAC...
The goal of any wound care provider is to offer the best-known and best-available standard of care, regardless of setting or location. As such, all patients should receive care in a timely, efficient, cost-effective manner — and that care...
The goal of any wound care provider is to offer the best-known and best-available standard of care, regardless of setting or location. As such, all patients should receive care in a timely, efficient, cost-effective manner — and that care...
The goal of any wound care...
09/11/2012
Today's Wound Clinic
Wound Care on the Go
09/11/2012
John A. Sterba, MD, PhD, FACEP
John A. Sterba, MD, PhD, FACEP
‘Portable ER’ Allows Physician to Reinvent House Calls Editor’s Note: The terms “Portable ER,” “Community-Based Portable ER,” and “Physician House Calls” are trademark-pending and used as defined by the author,1,2 who conducts house calls as...
‘Portable ER’ Allows Physician to Reinvent House Calls Editor’s Note: The terms “Portable ER,” “Community-Based Portable ER,” and “Physician House Calls” are trademark-pending and used as defined by the author,1,2 who conducts house calls as...
‘Portable ER’ Allows Physician...
09/11/2012
Today's Wound Clinic
Establishing a Care Continuum in Rural America
09/11/2012
Frank Aviles Jr., PT, CWS, WCC, FACCWS, CLT
Frank Aviles Jr., PT, CWS, WCC, FACCW...
In North Central Louisiana, one Provider is Leading a Dedicated Team of Clinicians to Improve Wound Care Delivery.   Healthcare providers face many challenges related to patient care, regardless of one’s location or setting. However, there...
In North Central Louisiana, one Provider is Leading a Dedicated Team of Clinicians to Improve Wound Care Delivery.   Healthcare providers face many challenges related to patient care, regardless of one’s location or setting. However, there...
In North Central Louisiana, one...
09/11/2012
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Column

Letter from the Editor
From The Editor: Salute to Rural Health
09/11/2012
Dot Weir, RN, CWON, CWS
Dot Weir, RN, CWON, CWS
  We are so proud to provide you with the September issue of Today’s Wound Clinic; our journal that is growing in its circulation as well as in the breadth of topics covered — topics that are critically important to the business of running a...
  We are so proud to provide you with the September issue of Today’s Wound Clinic; our journal that is growing in its circulation as well as in the breadth of topics covered — topics that are critically important to the business of running a...
  We are so proud to provide you...
09/11/2012
Today's Wound Clinic
Business Briefs
Business Briefs: Call to Action: Start Preparing for ICD-10-CM
09/11/2012
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,...
09/11/2012
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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
Today's Wound Clinic
From the Editor
The Future of Wound Care in the Quality Payment Program
03/13/2024
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
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
Today's Wound Clinic
From the Editor
The Non-Pressure Ulcer Episode-Based Cost Measure "Field Test" Began Feb. 1
02/05/2024
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
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
Today's Wound Clinic
Guest Editorial
The G-Code Solution to Skin Substitute Reimbursement
01/25/2024
Shaun Carpenter MD, CWSP
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
Shaun Carpenter MD, CWSP, WMS
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
Monique L. Abner, MD, CWSP
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
Today's Wound Clinic
From the Editor
Confessions of a Doctor With Lipedema
03/14/2023
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
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
Today's Wound Clinic
From the Editor
Why Won’t the DME Provide Dressings for My Patient?
02/23/2023
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
Maybe Because Of My Documentation
Maybe Because Of My Documentation
Maybe Because Of My...
02/23/2023
Today's Wound Clinic
Guest Editorial
How Wound Care Providers Can Treat Patients Like People, Not Like Cases
02/01/2023
Morgan McCoy
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
Shannon Kody, MD
Alex G. Ortega-Loayza, MD, MCR
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
Kathleen D. Schaum, MS
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
Today's Wound Clinic
Business Briefs
The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Waivers Q&A
09/07/2022
Kathleen D. Schaum, MS
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
Kathleen D. Schaum, MS
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
Kathleen D. Schaum, MS
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
Today's Wound Clinic

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