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Volume 8 Issue 2 - March 2014

News Update
TWC News Update
03/14/2014
Stethoscopes May Be Spreading Germs & MRSA   Experts are warning physicians and other healthcare professionals that contaminated stethoscopes may be as dangerous or may be more likely to spread germs and infections, including...
Stethoscopes May Be Spreading Germs & MRSA   Experts are warning physicians and other healthcare professionals that contaminated stethoscopes may be as dangerous or may be more likely to spread germs and infections, including...
Stethoscopes May Be Spreading...
03/14/2014
Today's Wound Clinic
ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Coding Documentation Tips For Open Wounds & Amputations (Categories S01.1-S98.9)
03/14/2014
  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...
03/14/2014
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Assessing the Value of Wound Care Certification
03/14/2014
  Not long ago, Stanley K. McCallon, PT, DPT, CWS, considered himself a bit of a generalist as a healthcare provider. After launching his career in the mid-1990s, McCallon spent his first five years in practice working in a traditional...
  Not long ago, Stanley K. McCallon, PT, DPT, CWS, considered himself a bit of a generalist as a healthcare provider. After launching his career in the mid-1990s, McCallon spent his first five years in practice working in a traditional...
  Not long ago, Stanley K....
03/14/2014
Today's Wound Clinic
Interview With ACO Physician
03/14/2014
As part of our special edition on the state of health reform in wound care, TWC offers this exclusive Q&A with a member of the nationally distinguished Medicare Pioneer ACO.
As part of our special edition on the state of health reform in wound care, TWC offers this exclusive Q&A with a member of the nationally distinguished Medicare Pioneer ACO.
As part of our special edition...
03/14/2014
Today's Wound Clinic
Choosing & Implementing the “Right” Management Style for Your Clinic
03/14/2014
  Since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed in 2010, time has ripened for wound centers to offer effective patient care and still manage to experience financial profit. With the shift of focus toward preventative care, savvy hospitals...
  Since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed in 2010, time has ripened for wound centers to offer effective patient care and still manage to experience financial profit. With the shift of focus toward preventative care, savvy hospitals...
  Since the Affordable Care Act...
03/14/2014
Today's Wound Clinic
Transitioning to Packaged CTP Payments in Wound Care: No Easy Adjustment
03/14/2014
  The new method regarding packaged payment for cellular and/or tissue-based products (CTPs) [old term “skin substitutes”] established by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for wound care has brought with it a fair share of...
  The new method regarding packaged payment for cellular and/or tissue-based products (CTPs) [old term “skin substitutes”] established by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for wound care has brought with it a fair share of...
  The new method regarding...
03/14/2014
Today's Wound Clinic
The Evolving Landscape of Healthcare Reform: Impacts on Wound Care
03/14/2014
  In this dynamic post-reform healthcare climate, wound care clinicians must understand the implications of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA) and other reform programs on their practice. As an interdisciplinary...
  In this dynamic post-reform healthcare climate, wound care clinicians must understand the implications of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA) and other reform programs on their practice. As an interdisciplinary...
  In this dynamic post-reform...
03/14/2014
Today's Wound Clinic

Column

Business Briefs
Business Briefs: Confusion Reigns: 2014 Coding, Coverage, & Payment for CTPs
03/14/2014
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,...
03/14/2014
Today's Wound Clinic
Letter from the Editor
From the Editor: Wound Care & Health Reform
03/14/2014
  This week I had lunch with Dr. Guy L. Clifton, MD, author of Flatlined, Resuscitating American Medicine, a book that “delves into the realities of good people caught in a bad medical system.”   The former chairman of neurosurgery at the...
  This week I had lunch with Dr. Guy L. Clifton, MD, author of Flatlined, Resuscitating American Medicine, a book that “delves into the realities of good people caught in a bad medical system.”   The former chairman of neurosurgery at the...
  This week I had lunch with Dr....
03/14/2014
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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
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
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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
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
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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
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
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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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