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Volume 4 Issue 6 - June 2010

The Challenges of Negative Pressure Wound Therapy in Clinical Practice
06/10/2010
The Challenges of Negative Pressure Wound Therapy in Clinical Practice This article is a joint effort by Dot and Caroline, bringing together perspectives from our combined (too many to confess) years of practice. We have brought our slightly...
The Challenges of Negative Pressure Wound Therapy in Clinical Practice This article is a joint effort by Dot and Caroline, bringing together perspectives from our combined (too many to confess) years of practice. We have brought our slightly...
The Challenges of Negative...
06/10/2010
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Multiple Mechanisms of NPWT
06/10/2010
Contrary to what you might believe it is vital for wound care companies to have a completely unbiased view of the published scientific literature relating to their industry. Here I share my recent thinking as we enter a period of quickening...
Contrary to what you might believe it is vital for wound care companies to have a completely unbiased view of the published scientific literature relating to their industry. Here I share my recent thinking as we enter a period of quickening...
Contrary to what you might...
06/10/2010
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Helping Hands
A Drop in the Bucket
06/10/2010
Anxiety. Confusion. Fear. Exhaustion. All amplified by near total darkness and uncertainty. This is what I felt standing on the tarmac at the airport in Port au Prince near midnight less than three weeks after a major earthquake destroyed...
Anxiety. Confusion. Fear. Exhaustion. All amplified by near total darkness and uncertainty. This is what I felt standing on the tarmac at the airport in Port au Prince near midnight less than three weeks after a major earthquake destroyed...
Anxiety. Confusion. Fear....
06/10/2010
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Consumer Reports: NPWT Manufacturer
06/09/2010
The companies listed in this section agreed to provide TWC information on their NPWT products. Medela, Inc. • McHenry, IL • www.medela.com • (877) 694-6842 1) How many different NPWT products does your company currently produce? There are...
The companies listed in this section agreed to provide TWC information on their NPWT products. Medela, Inc. • McHenry, IL • www.medela.com • (877) 694-6842 1) How many different NPWT products does your company currently produce? There are...
The companies listed in this...
06/09/2010
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Product Roundup
Product Roundup
06/09/2010
Anacapa Technologies, Inc. Website: www.anacapa-tech.net, www.superbugnews.com Contact: 800-489-2591; anacapa@anacapa-tech.net Location: San Dimas, California Founded: 2002 Infection Control Products: • Anasept® Antimicrobial Skin & Wound...
Anacapa Technologies, Inc. Website: www.anacapa-tech.net, www.superbugnews.com Contact: 800-489-2591; anacapa@anacapa-tech.net Location: San Dimas, California Founded: 2002 Infection Control Products: • Anasept® Antimicrobial Skin & Wound...
Anacapa Technologies,...
06/09/2010
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Column

Letter from the Editor
From the Editor: Negative Pressure Wound Therapy
06/09/2010
  I have unbelievably just entered my 30th year in wound care. When I think back to what we had at our disposal to use for managing wounds back in my early beginnings, it was rudimentary at best; lots of gauze packing, a nifty product called...
  I have unbelievably just entered my 30th year in wound care. When I think back to what we had at our disposal to use for managing wounds back in my early beginnings, it was rudimentary at best; lots of gauze packing, a nifty product called...
  I have unbelievably just...
06/09/2010
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From the Front Lines
Front Lines: Grand View Wound Care Center
06/09/2010
  Today’s Wound Clinic recently had the opportunity to interview Jody Hanks, Program Director of Grand View Wound Care Center® (Sellersville, Pa) that recently celebrated its grand opening and public debut.   Today’s Wound Clinic (TWC):...
  Today’s Wound Clinic recently had the opportunity to interview Jody Hanks, Program Director of Grand View Wound Care Center® (Sellersville, Pa) that recently celebrated its grand opening and public debut.   Today’s Wound Clinic (TWC):...
  Today’s Wound Clinic recently...
06/09/2010
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Business Briefs
Business Briefs: Correct Orders and Documentation Determine Medicare Coverage and Payment
06/07/2010
The following table is the complete interview from the June 2010 Business Briefs section of Today’s Wound Clinic. Interviews were conducted by Kathleen D. Schaum, MS, is President and Founder of Kathleen D. Schaum & Associates, Inc., Lake...
The following table is the complete interview from the June 2010 Business Briefs section of Today’s Wound Clinic. Interviews were conducted by Kathleen D. Schaum, MS, is President and Founder of Kathleen D. Schaum & Associates, Inc., Lake...
The following table is the...
06/07/2010
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Insights

Product Spotlight
Product Focus: Silicon Valley Innovation Comes To Advanced Wound Care
06/09/2010
  The wound care industry has seen a proliferation of Negative Pressure Wound Therapy products in the past few years, as companies rush to capitalize on the widespread acceptance of the therapy. California-based Spiracur, Inc. believes that...
  The wound care industry has seen a proliferation of Negative Pressure Wound Therapy products in the past few years, as companies rush to capitalize on the widespread acceptance of the therapy. California-based Spiracur, Inc. believes that...
  The wound care industry has...
06/09/2010
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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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June 2010 Volume 4 Issue 6

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