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Letter from the Editor
Guest Editorial: Working in the 2017 Parallel Payment System
03/08/2017
I am truly honored to serve as the guest editor for this special reimbursement issue that begins the official 10th anniversary celebration of Today’s Wound Clinic (TWC). I hope you all have enjoyed learning from the wonderful authors and...
I am truly honored to serve as the guest editor for this special reimbursement issue that begins the official 10th anniversary celebration of Today’s Wound Clinic (TWC). I hope you all have enjoyed learning from the wonderful authors and...
I am truly honored to serve as...
03/08/2017
Today's Wound Clinic
Letter from the Editor
Has Wound Care Lost its 'Cheese'?
02/07/2017
I recently reread the book Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson. It’s an allegorical tale about response to change and illustrates the way people’s attitudes can determine whether they succeed or fail when faced with changes that impact...
I recently reread the book Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson. It’s an allegorical tale about response to change and illustrates the way people’s attitudes can determine whether they succeed or fail when faced with changes that impact...
I recently reread the book Who...
02/07/2017
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Letter from the Editor
From The Editor
01/05/2017
It’s time for New Year’s resolutions. Rather than making empty promises to yourself to lose weight and exercise, you might want to consider the following resolutions: 
It’s time for New Year’s resolutions. Rather than making empty promises to yourself to lose weight and exercise, you might want to consider the following resolutions: 
It’s time for New Year’s...
01/05/2017
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Letter from the Editor
From The Editor
12/13/2016
My Dad’s definition of “mixed emotions” was seeing your mother-in-law drive off a cliff in your new car. A new Quality Payment Program (QPP) for practitioners takes effect this January, and I have mixed emotions about it. The final rule...
My Dad’s definition of “mixed emotions” was seeing your mother-in-law drive off a cliff in your new car. A new Quality Payment Program (QPP) for practitioners takes effect this January, and I have mixed emotions about it. The final rule...
My Dad’s definition of “mixed...
12/13/2016
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Letter from the Editor
From the Editor
11/16/2016
I am writing this editorial the morning after a surprising, historic United States presidential election that swept into office an unexpected candidate in Donald Trump. My 25-year-old daughter called and asked me to explain how this happened....
I am writing this editorial the morning after a surprising, historic United States presidential election that swept into office an unexpected candidate in Donald Trump. My 25-year-old daughter called and asked me to explain how this happened....
I am writing this editorial the...
11/16/2016
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Letter from the Editor
Coming This December: Santa’s Naughty & Nice List for Eligible Providers
10/06/2016
In approximately two months all 2015 quality data reported by any practitioner (collected by any mechanism) will be made public by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). If you’re a podiatrist, wound care provider, or hyperbaric...
In approximately two months all 2015 quality data reported by any practitioner (collected by any mechanism) will be made public by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). If you’re a podiatrist, wound care provider, or hyperbaric...
In approximately two months all...
10/06/2016
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Letter from the Editor
From The Editor
09/16/2016
"All Gaul is divided into three parts,” is the famous first line of Julius Caesar’s history of the Gallic wars. He then methodically describes the inhabitants of each region, analyzing the traits of each culture that made them either brave or...
"All Gaul is divided into three parts,” is the famous first line of Julius Caesar’s history of the Gallic wars. He then methodically describes the inhabitants of each region, analyzing the traits of each culture that made them either brave or...
"All Gaul is divided into three...
09/16/2016
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Letter from the Editor
Meet 'Dr. MAC,' Your New Hyperbaric Physician …
08/09/2016
If you’ve ever attended a meeting at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in Baltimore, you know the security drill includes a vehicle and luggage search at the gate by guards, walking through a metal detector at the building...
If you’ve ever attended a meeting at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in Baltimore, you know the security drill includes a vehicle and luggage search at the gate by guards, walking through a metal detector at the building...
If you’ve ever attended a...
08/09/2016
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Letter from the Editor
From The Editor
07/11/2016
By noon on Monday, June 27, I felt like I had passed a kidney stone because that’s when I finally submitted my nine-page comment letter on the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) of 2015. Writing a comment letter on MACRA...
By noon on Monday, June 27, I felt like I had passed a kidney stone because that’s when I finally submitted my nine-page comment letter on the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) of 2015. Writing a comment letter on MACRA...
By noon on Monday, June 27, I...
07/11/2016
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Letter from the Editor
Pressure Ulcer Vs. 'Injury'
06/13/2016
The National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (NPUAP) recently met in Chicago for the 2016 Staging Consensus Conference. In the days following the meeting, the organization announced it will, effective immediately, use “pressure injury” to...
The National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (NPUAP) recently met in Chicago for the 2016 Staging Consensus Conference. In the days following the meeting, the organization announced it will, effective immediately, use “pressure injury” to...
The National Pressure Ulcer...
06/13/2016
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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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