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Volume 3 Issue 1 - January/February 2009

Are You Ready? The New Medicare Advance Beneficiary Notice (ABN)
02/01/2009
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 author 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 author do not represent, guarantee, or...
Information regarding coding,...
02/01/2009
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Thinking Beyond Competition
02/01/2009
  A most Happy and Prosperous New Year to the readers of Today’s Wound Clinic!   My personal hope is that the Happy part of that opening describes our readership. To achieve the Prosperous part, reading this issue of Today’s Wound Clinic...
  A most Happy and Prosperous New Year to the readers of Today’s Wound Clinic!   My personal hope is that the Happy part of that opening describes our readership. To achieve the Prosperous part, reading this issue of Today’s Wound Clinic...
  A most Happy and Prosperous...
02/01/2009
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Measuring Quality
02/01/2009
Institute of Medicine Definition of Quality:   The degree to which health services for individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes and are consistent with current professional knowledge.
Institute of Medicine Definition of Quality:   The degree to which health services for individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes and are consistent with current professional knowledge.
Institute of Medicine Definition...
02/01/2009
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Marketing to Hispanics: Lost in Translation
02/01/2009
  Later this year the Boy Scouts of America will kick off their first ever all-Hispanic advertising campaign. This is more significant than we may first realize. If this historic, relatively homogeneous, all-American organization is...
  Later this year the Boy Scouts of America will kick off their first ever all-Hispanic advertising campaign. This is more significant than we may first realize. If this historic, relatively homogeneous, all-American organization is...
  Later this year the Boy Scouts...
02/01/2009
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Moving Your Wound Care Practice When Opportunity Knocks
02/01/2009
Disclaimer: This article is meant only as a guideline. Each situation is different. If you have any legal questions regarding contractual issues, please consult an attorney.   As hospitals attempt to improve quality while providing additional...
Disclaimer: This article is meant only as a guideline. Each situation is different. If you have any legal questions regarding contractual issues, please consult an attorney.   As hospitals attempt to improve quality while providing additional...
Disclaimer: This article is...
02/01/2009
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The Referral Resurrection: Revive Your Clinic's Use of Physician Contacts
02/01/2009
  Any great marketer will preach that it is crucial to take a step back at times and examine the processes for different aspects of a business, with a fresh set of eyes. When wrapped up in the day-to-day operations, professionals may forget...
  Any great marketer will preach that it is crucial to take a step back at times and examine the processes for different aspects of a business, with a fresh set of eyes. When wrapped up in the day-to-day operations, professionals may forget...
  Any great marketer will preach...
02/01/2009
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The Recruitment Hurdle: Selling Wound Care
02/01/2009
  The specialty of wound care is currently facing the hurdle of properly marketing itself to attract new medical professionals. In order to collectively do so, the community must first take an in-depth look in the mirror to identify some...
  The specialty of wound care is currently facing the hurdle of properly marketing itself to attract new medical professionals. In order to collectively do so, the community must first take an in-depth look in the mirror to identify some...
  The specialty of wound care is...
02/01/2009
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Examining the Data: High Volume Surgical Procedures that Lead to Surgical Site Infection Requiring Patient Oversight After Discharge
02/01/2009
  A 43-year old women, referred by an OB/GYN, presented to the wound clinic 35 days post abdominal hysterectomy for evaluation of an abdominal incision recalcitrant to healing. In addition, the patient recently returned to work and she...
  A 43-year old women, referred by an OB/GYN, presented to the wound clinic 35 days post abdominal hysterectomy for evaluation of an abdominal incision recalcitrant to healing. In addition, the patient recently returned to work and she...
  A 43-year old women, referred...
02/01/2009
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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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