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Volume 1 Issue 1 - Spring 2007

Getting Started: The Tools You Need to Take Your Hospital-based Wound Clinic from Concept to Care
05/24/2007
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM; Dot Weir, RN, CWON, CWS
 Since the ancient Greeks first put honey in wounds, our comprehension of wound management has been a slow but steady journey. An understanding of the germ theory led to sterile, dry dressings and frequent antibiotic scrubs.
 Since the ancient Greeks first put honey in wounds, our comprehension of wound management has been a slow but steady journey. An understanding of the germ theory led to sterile, dry dressings and frequent antibiotic scrubs.
 Since the ancient Greeks first...
05/24/2007
Today's Wound Clinic
How Are We Doing? Evaluating Your Wound Clinic Operations
05/24/2007
Terry Treadwell, MD, FACS, FAAWC
After a seemingly interminable amount of time, your wound center is open. You are seeing patients and helping them with their chronic wounds. Everything is going well.
After a seemingly interminable amount of time, your wound center is open. You are seeing patients and helping them with their chronic wounds. Everything is going well.
After a seemingly interminable...
05/24/2007
Today's Wound Clinic
Celebrating a Grand Opening: Health First Wound Management and Hyperbarics Center
05/24/2007
Terika Haynes, MHA
Health First Wound Management and Hyperbarics Center, a $1.45 million facility in Palm Bay, Fla, is scheduled to open June 2007. The 7,000-squarefoot center will house a brand new, state-of-the-art, eight-person multiplace hyperbaric...
Health First Wound Management and Hyperbarics Center, a $1.45 million facility in Palm Bay, Fla, is scheduled to open June 2007. The 7,000-squarefoot center will house a brand new, state-of-the-art, eight-person multiplace hyperbaric...
Health First Wound Management...
05/24/2007
Today's Wound Clinic
If You Build It, They Will Come: Marketing Your Wound Clinic to Its Fullest Potential
05/24/2007
Christopher A. Morrison, MD, FACHM, CWS, FCCWS
After spending much hard work, time, and money planning your wound clinic, you might expect that you only need to open the doors and your appointment book will fill. Wrong! All too often, we do not give marketing its due. But is it marketing—...
After spending much hard work, time, and money planning your wound clinic, you might expect that you only need to open the doors and your appointment book will fill. Wrong! All too often, we do not give marketing its due. But is it marketing—...
After spending much hard work,...
05/24/2007
Today's Wound Clinic
Why Hire a Management Company for Your Wound Care Program?
05/24/2007
Providing clinically excellent and cost effective wound care remains both a goal and a challenge for many hospitals. The healthcare industry has struggled with cost and quality issues in many arenas for years but wound management has only...
Providing clinically excellent and cost effective wound care remains both a goal and a challenge for many hospitals. The healthcare industry has struggled with cost and quality issues in many arenas for years but wound management has only...
Providing clinically excellent...
05/24/2007
Today's Wound Clinic
Educating Staff: What Wound Clinicians Need To Know
05/24/2007
Valerie Sullivan, PT, MS, CWS
You have been asked by your facility’s administrative team to train a staff for the new Wound Center that is to open in a few short months or even weeks. That should be fairly simple, right?
You have been asked by your facility’s administrative team to train a staff for the new Wound Center that is to open in a few short months or even weeks. That should be fairly simple, right?
You have been asked by your...
05/24/2007
Today's Wound Clinic

Column

Business Briefs
Business Briefs: Top 10 Concerns: Challenges to Consider as You're Getting Started
05/24/2007
Kathleen D. Schaum, MS
  Several times a week, wound care professionals call with questions about their wound clinics. Following are the top 10 questions that were asked in 2006 — common concerns among wound care centers. We present these questions as reassurance:...
  Several times a week, wound care professionals call with questions about their wound clinics. Following are the top 10 questions that were asked in 2006 — common concerns among wound care centers. We present these questions as reassurance:...
  Several times a week, wound...
05/24/2007
Today's Wound Clinic
Letter from the Editor
From the Editor: Meet the Editors
05/24/2007
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM; Dot Weir, RN, CWON, CWS
Welcome to the inaugural issue of Today’s Wound Clinic. This journal was developed to address the specific needs of clinicians and administrators of outpatient wound clinics — a growing segment of providers managing patients with wounds that...
Welcome to the inaugural issue of Today’s Wound Clinic. This journal was developed to address the specific needs of clinicians and administrators of outpatient wound clinics — a growing segment of providers managing patients with wounds that...
Welcome to the inaugural issue...
05/24/2007
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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
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
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
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
Today's Wound Clinic
From the Editor
The Non-Pressure Ulcer Episode-Based Cost Measure "Field Test" Began Feb. 1
02/05/2024
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
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
Today's Wound Clinic
Guest Editorial
The G-Code Solution to Skin Substitute Reimbursement
01/25/2024
Shaun Carpenter, MD, FAPWCA, CWSP
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
Today's Wound Clinic
Guest Editorial
Wound Size Matters: Analysis of the New Restrictive Skin Substitute LCD Policy
09/01/2023
Shaun Carpenter, MD, FAPWCA, CWSP
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
Today's Wound Clinic
Guest Editorial
Wrestling With Implicit Bias to Deliver Better Care for Our Patients
06/01/2023
Monique L. Abner, MD, CWSP
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
Today's Wound Clinic
From the Editor
Confessions of a Doctor With Lipedema
03/14/2023
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
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
Today's Wound Clinic
From the Editor
Why Won’t the DME Provide Dressings for My Patient?
02/23/2023
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
Maybe Because Of My Documentation
Maybe Because Of My Documentation
Maybe Because Of My...
02/23/2023
Today's Wound Clinic
Guest Editorial
How Wound Care Providers Can Treat Patients Like People, Not Like Cases
02/01/2023
Morgan McCoy
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
Today's Wound Clinic
Guest Editorial
Amputations in Pyoderma Gangrenosum Patients: Underreported or Very Rare?
01/11/2023
Alex G. Ortega-Loayza, MD, MCR; Shannon Kody, MD
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
Today's Wound Clinic

Coping With COVID-19

Business Briefs
Telehealth Use Continues and Receives Further Medicare Payment 
01/25/2023
Kathleen D. Schaum, MS
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
Kathleen D. Schaum, MS
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
Today's Wound Clinic
Business Briefs
The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Extension Also Applies to Telehealth
08/15/2022
Kathleen D. Schaum, MS
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
Today's Wound Clinic
Business Briefs
The COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, Coding Changes, and Coverage Changes Continue
02/09/2022
Kathleen D. Schaum, MS
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
Today's Wound Clinic

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