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Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

The Non-Healing Wounds of the Brain and the Use of HBOT
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The Non-Healing Wounds of the Brain and the Use of HBOT
12/16/2020

Mohammed Elamir, MD, FACP; Alexander Alvarez, MD; Amir Hadanny, MD, PhD; and Shai Efrati, MD

Mohammed Elamir, MD, FACP; Alexander ...
Does hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) have potential in healing chronic brain wounds? These authors outline the effects of the hyperoxic-hypoxic paradox, delve into proper patient selection, and describe an innovative treatment model.
Does hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) have potential in healing chronic brain wounds? These authors outline the effects of the hyperoxic-hypoxic paradox, delve into proper patient selection, and describe an innovative treatment model.
Does hyperbaric oxygen therapy...
12/16/2020
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Patient-Centered Decision Making in Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine
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Patient-Centered Decision Making in Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine
12/04/2020
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
Centering wound treatment on the patient rather than the disease permits patients more active engagement in their own care, and can lead to better outcomes. This author explains how to make your practice more patient centered, with an eye on...
Centering wound treatment on the patient rather than the disease permits patients more active engagement in their own care, and can lead to better outcomes. This author explains how to make your practice more patient centered, with an eye on...
Centering wound treatment on the...
12/04/2020
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A Closer Look at Hyperbaric Safety and Training
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A Closer Look at Hyperbaric Safety and Training
06/02/2020

W.T. Workman, BS, MS, CAsP, CHT-A, FAsMA, FUHM

W.T. Workman, BS, MS, CAsP, CHT-A, FA...
This author describes the risk posed by the increasing numbers of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) facilities operating with inadequate training and little or no oversight. For the most part, those of us who operate hyperbaric medicine...
This author describes the risk posed by the increasing numbers of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) facilities operating with inadequate training and little or no oversight. For the most part, those of us who operate hyperbaric medicine...
This author describes the risk...
06/02/2020
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How a New HBOT Law Poses a Dilemma for North Carolina’s Wound Clinics
11/05/2019

Dick Clarke

Dick Clarke
This author takes a look at a law governing hyperbaric access in North Carolina and its implications for wound clinics. On Oct. 1, a bill entitled the “North Carolina Veterans Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder...
This author takes a look at a law governing hyperbaric access in North Carolina and its implications for wound clinics. On Oct. 1, a bill entitled the “North Carolina Veterans Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder...
This author takes a look at a...
11/05/2019
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Business Briefs
Correcting Common Bad Habits That Cause Medicare Denials and/or Repayments for HBOT
09/04/2019
Kathleen D. Schaum, MS
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,...
09/04/2019
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Understanding Nutritional Optimization in Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
09/03/2019
Tiffany Hamm, BSN, RN, ACHRN, CWS
Jeff Mize, RRT, CHT, CWCA
Elaine Horibe Song, MD, PhD, MBA
Eugene R. Worth, MD, M.Ed., FABA, ABPM/UHM
National Coverage Determination requires nutritional optimization for patients to receive hyperbaric oxygen therapy. These authors provide a guideline for how to assess nutrition and take a closer look at payers’ required elements of...
National Coverage Determination requires nutritional optimization for patients to receive hyperbaric oxygen therapy. These authors provide a guideline for how to assess nutrition and take a closer look at payers’ required elements of...
National Coverage Determination...
09/03/2019
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What We Have Learned From the Prior Authorization Model for Non-Emergent HBOT
09/03/2019
Helen B. Gelly, MD, FACCWS, UHM/ABPM, FUHM
Taking a closer look at the Prior Authorization Project for Non-Emergent Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT), this author details what wound clinicians can learn from the utilization and expenditures of HBOT. In 2015, the Centers for...
Taking a closer look at the Prior Authorization Project for Non-Emergent Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT), this author details what wound clinicians can learn from the utilization and expenditures of HBOT. In 2015, the Centers for...
Taking a closer look at the...
09/03/2019
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Reader Reports
What a Reader Survey on HBOT Reveals
08/02/2019
Editor’s Note: To better understand our audience, Today’s Wound Clinic surveyed readers about the services they provide in their facilities. What follows is part of the results of a reader survey regarding hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT),...
Editor’s Note: To better understand our audience, Today’s Wound Clinic surveyed readers about the services they provide in their facilities. What follows is part of the results of a reader survey regarding hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT),...
Editor’s Note: To better...
08/02/2019
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ICD-10-CM
ICD-10 Coding for Soft Tissue Radiation Necrosis Treated with HBOT
03/11/2019
Valerie J. Short, RN, ACHRN, CWCN, CWS, CMBS, FACCWS
There have been many challenges for everyone in the health care profession related to the implementation of ICD-10, which took effect on October 1, 2015. Fortunately, the field of hyperbaric medicine had a very short list of covered...
There have been many challenges for everyone in the health care profession related to the implementation of ICD-10, which took effect on October 1, 2015. Fortunately, the field of hyperbaric medicine had a very short list of covered...
There have been many challenges...
03/11/2019
Today's Wound Clinic
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Hyperbaric Medicine: Feeling Pressure in the Wound Clinic
01/10/2019
Dick Clarke, CHT
As the utilization of HBOT becomes increasingly scrutinized, wound care providers must remain vigilant to ensure they are providing treatment appropriately.
As the utilization of HBOT becomes increasingly scrutinized, wound care providers must remain vigilant to ensure they are providing treatment appropriately.
As the utilization of HBOT...
01/10/2019
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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
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
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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
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Guest Editorial
The G-Code Solution to Skin Substitute Reimbursement
01/25/2024
Shaun Carpenter MD, 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
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Guest Editorial
Wound Size Matters: Analysis of the New Restrictive Skin Substitute LCD Policy
09/01/2023
Shaun Carpenter MD, CWSP, WMS
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
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
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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
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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
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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
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Guest Editorial
Amputations in Pyoderma Gangrenosum Patients: Underreported or Very Rare?
01/11/2023
Shannon Kody, MD
Alex G. Ortega-Loayza, MD, MCR
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
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
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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
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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
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