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Volume 6 Issue 8 - October 2012

Guest Blog: Preparing Yourself To Get Through An Audit Unscathed
10/09/2012
I wasn’t born and raised in Florida, but in the 15 years that I have called Jacksonville home, I have come to appreciate the charms and nuances of living in a beautiful subtropical climate where living near water brings with it natural beauty...
I wasn’t born and raised in Florida, but in the 15 years that I have called Jacksonville home, I have come to appreciate the charms and nuances of living in a beautiful subtropical climate where living near water brings with it natural beauty...
I wasn’t born and raised in...
10/09/2012
Today's Wound Clinic
News Update
TWC News Update
10/05/2012
Mobile Wound Care App Garners Sponsorship   WellDyne Health, a health solutions provider and distributor based in Lakeland, FL, has announced an exclusive sponsorship for WoundSmart™, a wound care documentation application for the iPhone and...
Mobile Wound Care App Garners Sponsorship   WellDyne Health, a health solutions provider and distributor based in Lakeland, FL, has announced an exclusive sponsorship for WoundSmart™, a wound care documentation application for the iPhone and...
Mobile Wound Care App Garners...
10/05/2012
Today's Wound Clinic
SAWC “Gives Back” Program Awards New Wound Care Scholarships
10/05/2012
  A group of clinicians was recently recognized for excellence in wound care at SAWC Fall 2012 in Baltimore, MD. Officials with the North American Center for Continuing Medical Education LLC (NACCME), the continuing education sponsor for...
  A group of clinicians was recently recognized for excellence in wound care at SAWC Fall 2012 in Baltimore, MD. Officials with the North American Center for Continuing Medical Education LLC (NACCME), the continuing education sponsor for...
  A group of clinicians was...
10/05/2012
Today's Wound Clinic
The “Rapid Track” to Improved Wound Outcomes
10/05/2012
  There may not be anything more indicative of the frailties that exist in today’s healthcare system than the continued overcrowding of emergency departments across the US. As Americans live older with chronic health conditions, the wound...
  There may not be anything more indicative of the frailties that exist in today’s healthcare system than the continued overcrowding of emergency departments across the US. As Americans live older with chronic health conditions, the wound...
  There may not be anything more...
10/05/2012
Today's Wound Clinic
The Changing Face of Wound Care: Measuring Quality
10/05/2012
  The validity of the Mayan calendar, which predicts the end of the world this coming December, is certainly a questionable debate. However, had the Mayans originally set forth to try their hands at predicting the end of the wound care...
  The validity of the Mayan calendar, which predicts the end of the world this coming December, is certainly a questionable debate. However, had the Mayans originally set forth to try their hands at predicting the end of the wound care...
  The validity of the Mayan...
10/05/2012
Today's Wound Clinic
Making Wound Care More Meaningful: Understanding Incentive-based Programs
10/05/2012
  In today’s fiscal healthcare climate, remaining financially secure can be as imperative to clinicians as it is to provide optimal care — a standard that continues to be redefined by federal programs and professionals seeking to improve care...
  In today’s fiscal healthcare climate, remaining financially secure can be as imperative to clinicians as it is to provide optimal care — a standard that continues to be redefined by federal programs and professionals seeking to improve care...
  In today’s fiscal healthcare...
10/05/2012
Today's Wound Clinic

Column

Business Briefs
Business Briefs: Is Your Wound Clinic Prepared to Provide Care Under Parallel Reimbursement?
10/05/2012
Information regarding coding, coverage, and payment is provided as a service to our readers. HMP Communications and the authors do not represent, guarantee, or warranty that the coding, coverage, and payment information is error-free and/or...
Information regarding coding, coverage, and payment is provided as a service to our readers. HMP Communications and the authors do not represent, guarantee, or warranty that the coding, coverage, and payment information is error-free and/or...
Information regarding coding,...
10/05/2012
Today's Wound Clinic
Letter from the Editor
From the Editor: Wound Quality Measures
10/05/2012
  A few years ago, I got a call from the medical director of a large HMO. After introducing himself, he said, “I want to know why it costs less to send a patient with a chronic wound to see you than somewhere else.” It was an awkward...
  A few years ago, I got a call from the medical director of a large HMO. After introducing himself, he said, “I want to know why it costs less to send a patient with a chronic wound to see you than somewhere else.” It was an awkward...
  A few years ago, I got a call...
10/05/2012
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Feature

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An Inside Look at Sechrist Industries Inc. and Progressive Wound Care
10/05/2012
An interview with Ed Pulwer, chief executive officer, president. Today’s Wound Clinic (TWC): How long have you been in wound care, and how did you enter this area of healthcare? Ed Pulwer (EP): I have been with Sechrist Industries, my...
An interview with Ed Pulwer, chief executive officer, president. Today’s Wound Clinic (TWC): How long have you been in wound care, and how did you enter this area of healthcare? Ed Pulwer (EP): I have been with Sechrist Industries, my...
An interview with Ed Pulwer,...
10/05/2012
Today's Wound Clinic
Clinician's Report
Clinician’s Report: Educational Programs
10/05/2012
Hollister Wound Care Inc. Website:: www.hollisterwoundcare.com Contact: 888-740-8999; leslie.rader@hollister.com Location: Libertyville, IL Founded:: 2006 Program Provided: ConnectEd® Learning Management System (LMS). Program Description:...
Hollister Wound Care Inc. Website:: www.hollisterwoundcare.com Contact: 888-740-8999; leslie.rader@hollister.com Location: Libertyville, IL Founded:: 2006 Program Provided: ConnectEd® Learning Management System (LMS). Program Description:...
Hollister Wound Care...
10/05/2012
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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
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
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
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
Today's Wound Clinic
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
Today's Wound Clinic
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
Today's Wound Clinic
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
Today's Wound Clinic

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
Today's Wound Clinic
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
Today's Wound Clinic

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