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Volume 14 Issue 4 - April 2020

COVID-19
April 30, 2020 Update: Communication Technology-Based Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic
04/14/2020
On April 7, 2020, we posted the telehealth payment requirements that have been waived during the COVID-19 pandemic.
On April 7, 2020, we posted the telehealth payment requirements that have been waived during the COVID-19 pandemic.
On April 7, 2020, we posted the...
04/14/2020
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ICD-10-CM
ICD-10-CM Coding Guidelines for COVID-19
04/07/2020
What are the correct diagnosis codes to use when you encounter a patient with the COVID-19 coronavirus? This author provides the most updated ICD-10-CM coding guidelines. Information regarding coding, coverage, and payment is provided as a...
What are the correct diagnosis codes to use when you encounter a patient with the COVID-19 coronavirus? This author provides the most updated ICD-10-CM coding guidelines. Information regarding coding, coverage, and payment is provided as a...
What are the correct diagnosis...
04/07/2020
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Avoiding Unintended Consequences for the Complex Wound Patient in the Fight Against COVID-19
COVID-19
Avoiding Unintended Consequences for the Complex Wound Patient in the Fight Against COVID-19
04/03/2020
As these authors stress, the consequences for the complex wound patient may be severe and long-lasting if clinicians become lax on continued treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic.
As these authors stress, the consequences for the complex wound patient may be severe and long-lasting if clinicians become lax on continued treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic.
As these authors stress, the...
04/03/2020
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Implementing Nutrition Care: What the Revised NPIAP Clinical Practice Guideline Recommends
Nutrition
Implementing Nutrition Care: What the Revised NPIAP Clinical Practice Guideline Recommends
04/03/2020
Wound clinicians treating pressure injuries now have new guidance with the release of a Clinical Practice Guideline by the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel. This author details the guideline’s updated nutritional information and good...
Wound clinicians treating pressure injuries now have new guidance with the release of a Clinical Practice Guideline by the National Pressure Injury Advisory Panel. This author details the guideline’s updated nutritional information and good...
Wound clinicians treating...
04/03/2020
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Considerations and Recommendations Regarding the COVID-19 Virus for Wound Centers
COVID-19
Considerations and Recommendations Regarding the COVID-19 Virus for Wound Centers
04/03/2020
As the coronavirus continues to infect more people with COVID-19, health care providers must be vigilant when patients present to wound centers. This author offers guidance on steps to take to minimize the spread of the infection while...
As the coronavirus continues to infect more people with COVID-19, health care providers must be vigilant when patients present to wound centers. This author offers guidance on steps to take to minimize the spread of the infection while...
As the coronavirus continues to...
04/03/2020
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Can a Hypothermically Stored Amnion Graft Change DFU Outcomes in an Evolving Patient Demographic?
Diabetic Foot Ulcers
Can a Hypothermically Stored Amnion Graft Change DFU Outcomes in an Evolving Patient Demographic?
04/03/2020
With the increasing prevalence of diabetes, it is crucial to develop new avenues to treat diabetic foot ulcers. These authors take a look at the research on a novel hypothermically stored amniotic membrane and its potential to close wounds...
With the increasing prevalence of diabetes, it is crucial to develop new avenues to treat diabetic foot ulcers. These authors take a look at the research on a novel hypothermically stored amniotic membrane and its potential to close wounds...
With the increasing prevalence...
04/03/2020
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An Auditor’s Perspective of Debridement and E&M/Clinic Visits With Modifier -25
Audits
An Auditor’s Perspective of Debridement and E&M/Clinic Visits With Modifier -25
04/03/2020
Information regarding coding, coverage, and payment is provided as a service to our readers. Every effort has been made to ensure information accuracy. However, HMP Communications and the authors do not represent, guarantee, or warranty that...
Information regarding coding, coverage, and payment is provided as a service to our readers. Every effort has been made to ensure information accuracy. However, HMP Communications and the authors do not represent, guarantee, or warranty that...
Information regarding coding,...
04/03/2020
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Column

Courage and Fortitude in the Time of COVID-19
From the Editor
Courage and Fortitude in the Time of COVID-19
04/03/2020
Last month, on March 8, I went to visit my 94-year-old Mother. She is an extreme statistical outlier because she requires no medications, lives alone in her own home, and drives round trip to Houston once a week (180 miles). That weekend, we...
Last month, on March 8, I went to visit my 94-year-old Mother. She is an extreme statistical outlier because she requires no medications, lives alone in her own home, and drives round trip to Houston once a week (180 miles). That weekend, we...
Last month, on March 8, I went...
04/03/2020
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Controversy: Coding and Billing for Packaged CTPs Received at ‘No Cost’!
Consultation Corner
Controversy: Coding and Billing for Packaged CTPs Received at ‘No Cost’!
04/03/2020
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,...
04/03/2020
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Insights

Courage and Fortitude in the Time of COVID-19
From the Editor
Courage and Fortitude in the Time of COVID-19
04/03/2020
Last month, on March 8, I went to visit my 94-year-old Mother. She is an extreme statistical outlier because she requires no medications, lives alone in her own home, and drives round trip to Houston once a week (180 miles). That weekend, we...
Last month, on March 8, I went to visit my 94-year-old Mother. She is an extreme statistical outlier because she requires no medications, lives alone in her own home, and drives round trip to Houston once a week (180 miles). That weekend, we...
Last month, on March 8, I went...
04/03/2020
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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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April 2020 Volume 14 Issue 4

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