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Volume 9 Issue 9 - November/December 2015

HBOT Prior Authorization & Prepayment Review Forum
12/17/2015
TWC offers this exclusive forum for providers in the outpatient wound clinic to share their experiences related to hyperbaric reimbursement and prepayment protocols. To share a comment, email jdarrah@hmpcommunications.com
TWC offers this exclusive forum for providers in the outpatient wound clinic to share their experiences related to hyperbaric reimbursement and prepayment protocols. To share a comment, email jdarrah@hmpcommunications.com
TWC offers this exclusive forum...
12/17/2015
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Quality Measures Resource Guide: Quality Reporting is Mandatory in 2016
12/15/2015
The United States’ healthcare “fee for service” payment system is rapidly transitioning away from one based on volume to one that is determined by “value” and links costs to improved patient outcomes. The problem with the current system is...
The United States’ healthcare “fee for service” payment system is rapidly transitioning away from one based on volume to one that is determined by “value” and links costs to improved patient outcomes. The problem with the current system is...
The United States’ healthcare...
12/15/2015
Today's Wound Clinic
Detecting Abnormal Angiogenesis in Nonhealing Wounds With ICG Microangiography
12/15/2015
Indocyanine green fluorescence vascular angiography (FVA, or ICG imaging) provides a dynamic view of tissue perfusion at the microvascular level.
Indocyanine green fluorescence vascular angiography (FVA, or ICG imaging) provides a dynamic view of tissue perfusion at the microvascular level.
Indocyanine green fluorescence...
12/15/2015
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Closed Pulse Irrigation: A Better Pulse Lavage Delivery System for Wound Debridement and Biofilm Management
12/15/2015
When Celeste Bell was declared free of anal cancer a few years ago, she was left with a painful reminder from the more than 30 radiation and chemotherapy treatments that cured her: a large, open wound (measuring 4 cm x 5 cm) that was very...
When Celeste Bell was declared free of anal cancer a few years ago, she was left with a painful reminder from the more than 30 radiation and chemotherapy treatments that cured her: a large, open wound (measuring 4 cm x 5 cm) that was very...
When Celeste Bell was declared...
12/15/2015
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Exploring Options for Certification in Wound Care
12/15/2015
Wound care providers can avoid the cookie-cutter approach to practice by gaining advanced specialized education. This article will review several options.  
Wound care providers can avoid the cookie-cutter approach to practice by gaining advanced specialized education. This article will review several options.  
Wound care providers can avoid...
12/15/2015
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Achieving Patient Adherence in the Wound Care Clinic
12/15/2015
The term “compliance” is no longer appropriate to define patient behaviors toward care planning. How can wound care providers determine “adherence” and help patients improve self-care?  
The term “compliance” is no longer appropriate to define patient behaviors toward care planning. How can wound care providers determine “adherence” and help patients improve self-care?  
The term “compliance” is no...
12/15/2015
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Column

Letter from the Editor
From the Editor
12/15/2015
“What experience and history teach is this — that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.” - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of...
“What experience and history teach is this — that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.” - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of...
“What experience and history...
12/15/2015
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Business Briefs
Business Briefs: Navigating the Medicare Appeals Process
12/15/2015
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,...
12/15/2015
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Department

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Understanding & Responding to Prepayment Reviews for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
12/15/2015
Appropriate response to records requests requires knowledge of the prepayment review process. This article offers guidance to HBOT providers in wound care.
Appropriate response to records requests requires knowledge of the prepayment review process. This article offers guidance to HBOT providers in wound care.
Appropriate response to records...
12/15/2015
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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