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Volume 8 Issue 4 - May 2014

Column

Guest Editorial
The Politics of Wound Care
06/11/2014
Desmond P. Bell, Jr., DPM, CWS, FFPM, RCPS(Glasg), FCCWS, FAPWCA
For this month’s editorial, TWC board member Des Bell, DPM, CWS, discusses his support of Dr. Lee Rogers’ run for the US House of Representatives.
For this month’s editorial, TWC board member Des Bell, DPM, CWS, discusses his support of Dr. Lee Rogers’ run for the US House of Representatives.
For this month’s editorial, TWC...
06/11/2014
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Business Briefs
Medical Necessity Tops Conversation Topics at SAWC Spring
05/03/2014
Kathleen D. Schaum, MS
While registering at the Gaylord Palms Resort in Orlando, FL, for the Symposium on Advanced Wound Care (SAWC) Spring 2014, a physician tapped me on the shoulder and said, “The hospital-based outpatient wound care department (HOPD), for which...
While registering at the Gaylord Palms Resort in Orlando, FL, for the Symposium on Advanced Wound Care (SAWC) Spring 2014, a physician tapped me on the shoulder and said, “The hospital-based outpatient wound care department (HOPD), for which...
While registering at the Gaylord...
05/03/2014
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ICD-10-CM
ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Coding Documentation Tips for ‘Complications’
05/03/2014
  The arrival of ICD-10-CM has been pushed back to October 2015, but Today’s Wound Clinic is still helping wound care practitioners get an early start on refining their documentation skills in preparation for the new coding format. In an...
  The arrival of ICD-10-CM has been pushed back to October 2015, but Today’s Wound Clinic is still helping wound care practitioners get an early start on refining their documentation skills in preparation for the new coding format. In an...
  The arrival of ICD-10-CM has...
05/03/2014
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Medical Necessity
Medical Necessity in the HOPD: Are You Seeing the ‘Right’ Patients?
05/03/2014
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM; Toni Turner, RCP, CHT, CWS, FCCWS
  In August 2000, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) created the hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS). CMS projected that in 2013 the cost of services provided to Medicare beneficiaries under OPPS would be...
  In August 2000, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) created the hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS). CMS projected that in 2013 the cost of services provided to Medicare beneficiaries under OPPS would be...
  In August 2000, the Center for...
05/03/2014
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Physical Therapy
Examining the Increased Role of the Physical Therapist Within the Wound Care Industry
05/03/2014
Frank Aviles, Jr., PT, CWS, FACCWS, CLT-LANA, ALM, AWCC
  Any effective multidisciplinary wound care team will typically consist of a well-represented blend of healthcare professionals who lend their individual, unique areas of expertise to form a collaboration that shares a vision to meet the...
  Any effective multidisciplinary wound care team will typically consist of a well-represented blend of healthcare professionals who lend their individual, unique areas of expertise to form a collaboration that shares a vision to meet the...
  Any effective...
05/03/2014
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Venous Ulcers
Protecting Edges of Venous Ulcers: An Evidence-Based Approach
05/03/2014
Debra Thayer, MS, RN, CWOCN
  Wound healing, in part, depends on epithelial migration (ie, the lateral migration of cells from the wound edge). Viable, healthy wound edges are essential for this process to occur efficiently.1,2 For venous ulcers, this process of...
  Wound healing, in part, depends on epithelial migration (ie, the lateral migration of cells from the wound edge). Viable, healthy wound edges are essential for this process to occur efficiently.1,2 For venous ulcers, this process of...
  Wound healing, in part,...
05/03/2014
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Wound Care Silo Busting: Building a Service Line Across the Continuum
05/03/2014
Debra Miller-Cox, MD, MSc
  Wound care is unique in that it has been an intrinsic component of care among nurses, therapists, podiatrists, and surgeons for many years while medically trained physicians are newest to the field and typically come to it after training in...
  Wound care is unique in that it has been an intrinsic component of care among nurses, therapists, podiatrists, and surgeons for many years while medically trained physicians are newest to the field and typically come to it after training in...
  Wound care is unique in that...
05/03/2014
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News Update
TWC News Update
05/03/2014
USWR Qualifies As CMS Clinical Data Registry   Officials with the US Wound Registry (USWR), a Medicare physician quality reporting body, have announced its acceptance as a qualified clinical data registry (QCDR) by the Centers for Medicare...
USWR Qualifies As CMS Clinical Data Registry   Officials with the US Wound Registry (USWR), a Medicare physician quality reporting body, have announced its acceptance as a qualified clinical data registry (QCDR) by the Centers for Medicare...
USWR Qualifies As CMS Clinical...
05/03/2014
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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
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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
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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
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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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