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Volume 7 Issue 4 - May 2013

Feature

Infographic
Industry Insider: An Inside Look at Medela Inc.
05/16/2013
For this month’s feature, Today’s Wound Clinic spoke with Mitch Odahowski, vice president. Today’s Wound Clinic (TWC): How long have you been in wound care, and how did you enter this area of healthcare? Mitch Odahowski (MO): Most of my...
For this month’s feature, Today’s Wound Clinic spoke with Mitch Odahowski, vice president. Today’s Wound Clinic (TWC): How long have you been in wound care, and how did you enter this area of healthcare? Mitch Odahowski (MO): Most of my...
For this month’s feature,...
05/16/2013
Today's Wound Clinic
News Update
TWC News Update
05/16/2013
California Wound Center Earns Warriner Excellence Award   Sonora (CA) Regional Medical Center has received the Robert A. Warriner III, MD Center of Excellence award for wound healing. According to facility officials, the center earned the...
California Wound Center Earns Warriner Excellence Award   Sonora (CA) Regional Medical Center has received the Robert A. Warriner III, MD Center of Excellence award for wound healing. According to facility officials, the center earned the...
California Wound Center Earns...
05/16/2013
Today's Wound Clinic
Handling Abuse of Pain Meds in the Wound Care Clinic
05/16/2013
  My initial exposure to wound care as a physical therapist (PT) was providing whirlpool treatments on an inpatient basis. (And, yes, this was back in the days of Betadine.®) There was not much thought given back then to pain management — if...
  My initial exposure to wound care as a physical therapist (PT) was providing whirlpool treatments on an inpatient basis. (And, yes, this was back in the days of Betadine.®) There was not much thought given back then to pain management — if...
  My initial exposure to wound...
05/16/2013
Today's Wound Clinic
Managing Pain Medication in the Outpatient Wound Clinic
05/16/2013
  Treatment of pain may soon become more challenging within outpatient wound clinics. Abuse, misuse, and diversion have led the FDA to consider reclassifying hydrocodone combinations, traditionally the “workhorses of pain management,” as...
  Treatment of pain may soon become more challenging within outpatient wound clinics. Abuse, misuse, and diversion have led the FDA to consider reclassifying hydrocodone combinations, traditionally the “workhorses of pain management,” as...
  Treatment of pain may soon...
05/16/2013
Today's Wound Clinic
Incorporating the Nurse Practitioner Into Hospital-Based Outpatient Wound Care
05/16/2013
  It’s become common knowledge that wound healing requires a holistic approach. Any healthcare provider caring for the wound patient must consider the wound itself and all existing comorbidities beyond the wound in order to evaluate the...
  It’s become common knowledge that wound healing requires a holistic approach. Any healthcare provider caring for the wound patient must consider the wound itself and all existing comorbidities beyond the wound in order to evaluate the...
  It’s become common knowledge...
05/16/2013
Today's Wound Clinic
The Future of NPs in Wound Care: Delivery of Quality Care & Cost Savings?
05/16/2013
  There is a continually growing need to shift traditional wound care practice into what is now considered “best practice” and “advanced wound care” with the availability of evidence-based information. With this growing body of evidence-based...
  There is a continually growing need to shift traditional wound care practice into what is now considered “best practice” and “advanced wound care” with the availability of evidence-based information. With this growing body of evidence-based...
  There is a continually growing...
05/16/2013
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Avoiding Legal Pitfalls for Home Health Services in Wound Care
05/16/2013
  It’s already been a busy day in the wound clinic when a nurse rushes in to hand the physician a stack of home care nursing orders to sign. The forms, some of them more than five pages long, have been generated by various home health...
  It’s already been a busy day in the wound clinic when a nurse rushes in to hand the physician a stack of home care nursing orders to sign. The forms, some of them more than five pages long, have been generated by various home health...
  It’s already been a busy day...
05/16/2013
Today's Wound Clinic

Column

Business Briefs
Business Briefs: DME Medicare Administrative Contractor LCDs Are Important to Qualified Healthcare Professionals Specializing in Wound Care
05/16/2013
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. However, HMP Communications and the authors do not represent, guarantee, or...
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. However, HMP Communications and the authors do not represent, guarantee, or...
Information regarding coding,...
05/16/2013
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Letter from the Editor
From the Editor: Could Looming Healthcare Changes Affect Disaster Readiness?
05/16/2013
  The tragic events of April 15 in Boston provided us all a too-common reminder: We’re not really safe. Not today. Not tomorrow. Not any time soon. Threats of terrorist attack can no longer be considered anything other than imminent. Will a...
  The tragic events of April 15 in Boston provided us all a too-common reminder: We’re not really safe. Not today. Not tomorrow. Not any time soon. Threats of terrorist attack can no longer be considered anything other than imminent. Will a...
  The tragic events of April 15...
05/16/2013
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Ask the Board
Ask the Board
05/16/2013
  In this exclusive column, TWC offers readers the chance to ask industry-related questions to our expert editorial board members. This month’s question comes from Orlando, FL.   Q: Do you agree or disagree with some insurance companies not...
  In this exclusive column, TWC offers readers the chance to ask industry-related questions to our expert editorial board members. This month’s question comes from Orlando, FL.   Q: Do you agree or disagree with some insurance companies not...
  In this exclusive column, TWC...
05/16/2013
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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
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
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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
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
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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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May 2013 Volume 7 Issue 4

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