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Volume 8 Issue 1 - January/February 2014

News Update
TWC News Update
02/14/2014
Innovative Wound Imaging Debuts in Outpatient Clinics   A wound care service company has helped bring new technology into the outpatient wound clinic setting that is expected to help providers see wounds in a new, improved way. Wound Care...
Innovative Wound Imaging Debuts in Outpatient Clinics   A wound care service company has helped bring new technology into the outpatient wound clinic setting that is expected to help providers see wounds in a new, improved way. Wound Care...
Innovative Wound Imaging Debuts...
02/14/2014
Today's Wound Clinic
ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Coding Documentation Tips For Current Burns/Corrosions: Current Burns/Corrosions (T20-T25 Category)
02/14/2014
  The arrival of ICD-10-CM is on the horizon, and it will soon be essential for all wound care practitioners to refine their documentation skills in preparation for the new coding format. In an effort to assist our readers as they transition...
  The arrival of ICD-10-CM is on the horizon, and it will soon be essential for all wound care practitioners to refine their documentation skills in preparation for the new coding format. In an effort to assist our readers as they transition...
  The arrival of ICD-10-CM is on...
02/14/2014
Today's Wound Clinic
Achieving Efficient Wound Closure With Autologous Skin
02/14/2014
David J. Smith, Jr., MD, FACS
  More than 100 years ago, Ollier performed the first reported split-thickness skin graft (STSG) containing epidermis and dermis.1 A century later, wound closure remains the therapeutic imperative and the goal of caring for any wound.2 Wound...
  More than 100 years ago, Ollier performed the first reported split-thickness skin graft (STSG) containing epidermis and dermis.1 A century later, wound closure remains the therapeutic imperative and the goal of caring for any wound.2 Wound...
  More than 100 years ago,...
02/14/2014
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Getting Your Wound Clinic Ready for Business: A Comprehensive Checklist
02/14/2014
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM; Cathy Thomas Hess, BSN, RN, CWCN, CWOCN; Susie Seaman, NP, MSN, CWOCN; Donna J. Cartwright, MPA, RHIA, CCS, RAC, FAHIMA; Toni Turner, RCP, CHT, CWS, FCCWS; Joe Darrah; M. Darlene Carey, MBA; Valerie Sullivan, PT, MS, CWS; Kathleen D. Schaum, MS; Rex A. McCarty, MBA, CHT; Christopher A. Morrison, MD, FACHM, CWS, FCCWS
  Taking your wound clinic from concept, to construction, to completion, to compliance is an arduous process. With this checklist, Today’s Wound Clinic provides to-be wound clinic directors with an overview of the many parameters that must be...
  Taking your wound clinic from concept, to construction, to completion, to compliance is an arduous process. With this checklist, Today’s Wound Clinic provides to-be wound clinic directors with an overview of the many parameters that must be...
  Taking your wound clinic from...
02/14/2014
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Effectively Marketing The Hospital-Based Wound Care Center
02/14/2014
Christopher A. Morrison, MD, FACHM, CWS, FCCWS; Jessica Taft
  Chronic wounds affect millions of people, yet awareness of the epidemic is extremely limited. As wound care professionals, it is our responsibility to be stewards of the chronic wound epidemic by educating our physicians and communities to...
  Chronic wounds affect millions of people, yet awareness of the epidemic is extremely limited. As wound care professionals, it is our responsibility to be stewards of the chronic wound epidemic by educating our physicians and communities to...
  Chronic wounds affect millions...
02/14/2014
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Preparing Your Staff for Wound Clinic Launch: Comprehensive Education & Training
02/14/2014
Valerie Sullivan, PT, MS, CWS
  Many of the principle guidelines for appropriately preparing healthcare staff for the opening of a new wound clinic from an education perspective are more true today than ever before. However, with a changing healthcare climate that...
  Many of the principle guidelines for appropriately preparing healthcare staff for the opening of a new wound clinic from an education perspective are more true today than ever before. However, with a changing healthcare climate that...
  Many of the principle...
02/14/2014
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Determining the Validity of Your Outpatient Wound Center
02/14/2014
Toni Turner, RCP, CHT, CWS, FCCWS; Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
  On April 7, 2000, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) (then named the Healthcare Financing Administration) issued requirements for provider-based departments and entities as part of the final rule that implemented the...
  On April 7, 2000, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) (then named the Healthcare Financing Administration) issued requirements for provider-based departments and entities as part of the final rule that implemented the...
  On April 7, 2000, the Centers...
02/14/2014
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Column

Business Briefs
HOPD Payment Changes Continue in 2014
02/14/2014
Kathleen D. Schaum, MS
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,...
02/14/2014
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Letter from the Editor
From the Editor: In Memoriam: Jeffrey Unger
02/14/2014
​​​​​​​Pamela G. Unger, PT, CWS, FCCWS
  Jeffrey (Jeff) Unger was born in West Reading, PA, April 19, 1952. He married Pamela Fenstermacher Unger in April of 1977. His sudden and unexpected passing this past fall shocked an entire community. But his fond memories continue to be...
  Jeffrey (Jeff) Unger was born in West Reading, PA, April 19, 1952. He married Pamela Fenstermacher Unger in April of 1977. His sudden and unexpected passing this past fall shocked an entire community. But his fond memories continue to be...
  Jeffrey (Jeff) Unger was born...
02/14/2014
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Facility in Focus
Facility in Focus: Wound Healing in Las Vegas a Safe Bet at Desert Springs
02/14/2014
Joe Darrah
For more photos from our visit to Desert Springs Hospital Medical Center, visit http://www.todayswoundclinic.com/slideshow/facility-focus-wound-healing-las-vegas-safe-bet-desert-springs   Las Vegas — Delvin Lee has lived with HIV nearly 25...
For more photos from our visit to Desert Springs Hospital Medical Center, visit http://www.todayswoundclinic.com/slideshow/facility-focus-wound-healing-las-vegas-safe-bet-desert-springs   Las Vegas — Delvin Lee has lived with HIV nearly 25...
For more photos from our visit...
02/14/2014
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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
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
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
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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, FAPWCA, 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
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Guest Editorial
Wound Size Matters: Analysis of the New Restrictive Skin Substitute LCD Policy
09/01/2023
Shaun Carpenter, MD, FAPWCA, CWSP
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
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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
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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
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Guest Editorial
Amputations in Pyoderma Gangrenosum Patients: Underreported or Very Rare?
01/11/2023
Alex G. Ortega-Loayza, MD, MCR; Shannon Kody, MD
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
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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
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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
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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
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