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Volume 13 Issue 5 - May 2019

Charcot
Why Collaboration is Essential for Early and Successful Treatment of Charcot Foot
05/13/2019
Patients with diabetes and neuropathy can develop devastating foot and ankle complications, such as Charcot foot. An expert in the surgical reconstruction of the foot and ankle explains how collaborative care can prevent chronic or recurrent...
Patients with diabetes and neuropathy can develop devastating foot and ankle complications, such as Charcot foot. An expert in the surgical reconstruction of the foot and ankle explains how collaborative care can prevent chronic or recurrent...
Patients with diabetes and...
05/13/2019
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Pressure Injuries
How an Innovative Chair Pad Helped Heal Pressure Injuries for a Wheelchair-Bound Patient
05/13/2019
An observant wound care nurse and a wheelchair-bound patient suffering from a long-term pressure injury are the impetus for innovation at a Cincinnati soft goods manufacturer. The Casco Prevention Chair Pad, a new wheelchair pad created...
An observant wound care nurse and a wheelchair-bound patient suffering from a long-term pressure injury are the impetus for innovation at a Cincinnati soft goods manufacturer. The Casco Prevention Chair Pad, a new wheelchair pad created...
An observant wound care nurse...
05/13/2019
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Dermatology
Management of Skin & Wound Care in the Muscular Dystrophy Patient Population
05/13/2019
Successful healing of wounds is achievable in patients with muscular dystrophy with an interdisciplinary approach. What role does the outpatient clinic play?   Patients who live with muscular dystrophy and present with wounds are...
Successful healing of wounds is achievable in patients with muscular dystrophy with an interdisciplinary approach. What role does the outpatient clinic play?   Patients who live with muscular dystrophy and present with wounds are...
Successful healing of wounds is...
05/13/2019
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Product Roundup
Protect Periwound Skin With These Innovative Dermatologic Products
05/12/2019
Patients with wounds require special dermatological care to cleanse wounds and prevent complications. A number of skin care products available on the market can be a valuable addition to the wound care clinic for periwound skin.  Clean &...
Patients with wounds require special dermatological care to cleanse wounds and prevent complications. A number of skin care products available on the market can be a valuable addition to the wound care clinic for periwound skin.  Clean &...
Patients with wounds require...
05/12/2019
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Column

Business Briefs
MAC and Wound Management Stakeholder Report Cards for New LCD and LCD Reconsideration Processes
05/13/2019
Information regarding coding, coverage, and payment is provided as a service to our readers. Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy.  However, HMP and the author do not represent, guarantee, or warranty that coding, coverage, and...
Information regarding coding, coverage, and payment is provided as a service to our readers. Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy.  However, HMP and the author do not represent, guarantee, or warranty that coding, coverage, and...
Information regarding coding,...
05/13/2019
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From the Editor
Would Medicare for All Mean Healthcare for None?
05/13/2019
As the U.S. political left fully embraces socialism publicly and more Americans go without care because their private insurance has a staggering annual deductible, there’s more support for socializing U.S. healthcare. There was talk about...
As the U.S. political left fully embraces socialism publicly and more Americans go without care because their private insurance has a staggering annual deductible, there’s more support for socializing U.S. healthcare. There was talk about...
As the U.S. political left fully...
05/13/2019
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Patient Handouts
Skin Care
05/12/2019
About the Skin You're In
About the Skin You're In
About the Skin You're In
05/12/2019
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Insights

From the Editor
Would Medicare for All Mean Healthcare for None?
05/13/2019
As the U.S. political left fully embraces socialism publicly and more Americans go without care because their private insurance has a staggering annual deductible, there’s more support for socializing U.S. healthcare. There was talk about...
As the U.S. political left fully embraces socialism publicly and more Americans go without care because their private insurance has a staggering annual deductible, there’s more support for socializing U.S. healthcare. There was talk about...
As the U.S. political left fully...
05/13/2019
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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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May 2019 Volume 13 Issue 5

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