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Volume 14 Issue 1 - January 2020

Medicare Advantage
Taking a Critical Look at Medicare Advantage
01/09/2020
By the end of the decade, Medicare Advantage plans are projected to cover nearly half of eligible beneficiaries. This author examines the impact of Medicare Advantage plans, what the plans cover, and how the preauthorization appeals process...
By the end of the decade, Medicare Advantage plans are projected to cover nearly half of eligible beneficiaries. This author examines the impact of Medicare Advantage plans, what the plans cover, and how the preauthorization appeals process...
By the end of the decade,...
01/09/2020
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Outpatient Services
CMS: Effective This Month, All Outpatient Services in the Hospital Will Be Under General Supervision
01/09/2020
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have ruled that all outpatient hospital services will be under general supervision. This author discusses the impact of the rule on wound clinics, particularly those that offer hyperbaric...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have ruled that all outpatient hospital services will be under general supervision. This author discusses the impact of the rule on wound clinics, particularly those that offer hyperbaric...
The Centers for Medicare and...
01/09/2020
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Delivering Care That Counts: Nutritional Screening of Patients with Chronic Wounds
Nutrition
Delivering Care That Counts: Nutritional Screening of Patients with Chronic Wounds
01/08/2020
Optimizing nutrition can do wonders for chronic wounds. This author takes a look at nutritional screening for patients, and how wound care practitioners, nurses and registered dieticians can meet patients’ nutritional needs as well as their...
Optimizing nutrition can do wonders for chronic wounds. This author takes a look at nutritional screening for patients, and how wound care practitioners, nurses and registered dieticians can meet patients’ nutritional needs as well as their...
Optimizing nutrition can do...
01/08/2020
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Column

Don’t Select Codes by the Payment Rate You Like
Consultation Corner
Don’t Select Codes by the Payment Rate You Like
01/09/2020
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,...
01/09/2020
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Legal Counsel
A Guide to Supervisory Requirements Following the 2020 OPPS Final Rule
01/09/2020
A new year comes with new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) policies regarding requirements for therapeutic outpatient services at all hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAH). These authors explain the final Outpatient Prospective...
A new year comes with new Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) policies regarding requirements for therapeutic outpatient services at all hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAH). These authors explain the final Outpatient Prospective...
A new year comes with new...
01/09/2020
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Make These 5 Revenue Cycle Resolutions for 2020
Business Briefs
Make These 5 Revenue Cycle Resolutions for 2020
01/09/2020
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,...
01/09/2020
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How Wound Care May Change, for Better and Worse, in 2020
From the Editor
How Wound Care May Change, for Better and Worse, in 2020
01/09/2020
A lot changed for me in 2019. I became a widow, sold the house we lived in for 29 years, moved into a rented townhouse, got my daughter off to college and my son off to graduate school. Thankfully, even the most difficult life changes have at...
A lot changed for me in 2019. I became a widow, sold the house we lived in for 29 years, moved into a rented townhouse, got my daughter off to college and my son off to graduate school. Thankfully, even the most difficult life changes have at...
A lot changed for me in 2019. I...
01/09/2020
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News

Clinical and Industry News
Industry Insider News
01/09/2020
New Pressure Ulcer/Injury International Clinical Practice Guideline Released    
New Pressure Ulcer/Injury International Clinical Practice Guideline Released    
New Pressure Ulcer/Injury...
01/09/2020
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Insights

How Wound Care May Change, for Better and Worse, in 2020
From the Editor
How Wound Care May Change, for Better and Worse, in 2020
01/09/2020
A lot changed for me in 2019. I became a widow, sold the house we lived in for 29 years, moved into a rented townhouse, got my daughter off to college and my son off to graduate school. Thankfully, even the most difficult life changes have at...
A lot changed for me in 2019. I became a widow, sold the house we lived in for 29 years, moved into a rented townhouse, got my daughter off to college and my son off to graduate school. Thankfully, even the most difficult life changes have at...
A lot changed for me in 2019. I...
01/09/2020
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Department

How Local Digital Marketing Can Increase Wound Clinic Referrals
Practice Management
How Local Digital Marketing Can Increase Wound Clinic Referrals
01/08/2020
Your wound clinic can increase referrals with an effective local digital marketing campaign. This author reviews some basic principles of effective marketing, including optimizing social media use, local search engine optimization and local...
Your wound clinic can increase referrals with an effective local digital marketing campaign. This author reviews some basic principles of effective marketing, including optimizing social media use, local search engine optimization and local...
Your wound clinic can increase...
01/08/2020
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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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January 2020 Volume 14 Issue 1

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