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Letter from the Editor
My Quality Measure To-Do List
01/05/2018
As we ring in 2018, I’ve just reviewed my quality measure performance and I’m making my final choices regarding which measures I will report. The vast majority of medical practitioners became subject to the Merit-Based Incentive Payment...
As we ring in 2018, I’ve just reviewed my quality measure performance and I’m making my final choices regarding which measures I will report. The vast majority of medical practitioners became subject to the Merit-Based Incentive Payment...
As we ring in 2018, I’ve just...
01/05/2018
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Letter from the Editor
My Christmas Wish List
12/06/2017
Each patient I am currently treating with hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), plan to treat, or have recently treated is under some type of payment review, either by my Medicare Administrative Contractor (eg, prepayment review) or by a private...
Each patient I am currently treating with hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT), plan to treat, or have recently treated is under some type of payment review, either by my Medicare Administrative Contractor (eg, prepayment review) or by a private...
Each patient I am currently...
12/06/2017
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Letter from the Editor
From The Editor
11/07/2017
Lately, I have been thinking about some of the observations that Alexis de Tocqueville made in the mid-1800s regarding the still very young experiment in democracy known as the United States of America. A French diplomat, political scientist,...
Lately, I have been thinking about some of the observations that Alexis de Tocqueville made in the mid-1800s regarding the still very young experiment in democracy known as the United States of America. A French diplomat, political scientist,...
Lately, I have been thinking...
11/07/2017
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Letter from the Editor
My Tribute to Kathleen D. Schaum, MS
10/05/2017
The marching orders that I had received from my fellow editorial board member Kathleen D. Schaum, MS, prior to our post-conference seminar some years ago were, well, completely indicative of her meticulous approach to education. “What I’d...
The marching orders that I had received from my fellow editorial board member Kathleen D. Schaum, MS, prior to our post-conference seminar some years ago were, well, completely indicative of her meticulous approach to education. “What I’d...
The marching orders that I had...
10/05/2017
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Letter from the Editor
From the Editor
09/06/2017
Come October, our industry should have early access to a study that I hope will change the national conversation about wound care.
Come October, our industry should have early access to a study that I hope will change the national conversation about wound care.
Come October, our industry...
09/06/2017
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Letter from the Editor
Wound Care is the Data Underdog
08/08/2017
I am re-reading the book David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell because, as an underdog, the field of wound care must develop a strategy to survive healthcare reform. We do not have the...
I am re-reading the book David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants by Malcolm Gladwell because, as an underdog, the field of wound care must develop a strategy to survive healthcare reform. We do not have the...
I am re-reading the book David...
08/08/2017
Today's Wound Clinic
Letter from the Editor
Guest Editorial: Place of Service 11 — A Private-Office Solution for Wound Center Survival
07/03/2017
The battle over the fate of Obamacare rages on, with a major area of debate centered around whether more people will be uninsured under the Republican plan. What isn’t being discussed is the fact that currently there are millions of...
The battle over the fate of Obamacare rages on, with a major area of debate centered around whether more people will be uninsured under the Republican plan. What isn’t being discussed is the fact that currently there are millions of...
The battle over the fate of...
07/03/2017
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Letter from the Editor
Guest Editorial: A Worthwhile Learning & Collaboration Experience Awaits at Wound Clinic Business
06/08/2017
The entire editorial board of Today’s Wound Clinic (TWC) is celebrating the journal’s 10th anniversary in 2017. As one of the founding editorial board members, I am so proud of TWC and the work we have all produced over the past decade....
The entire editorial board of Today’s Wound Clinic (TWC) is celebrating the journal’s 10th anniversary in 2017. As one of the founding editorial board members, I am so proud of TWC and the work we have all produced over the past decade....
The entire editorial board of...
06/08/2017
Today's Wound Clinic
Letter from the Editor
Good News for HBOT
05/02/2017
There is big news for wound care and hyperbaric medicine professionals and, for once, the news is good. The Benchmarks for Measures Included in the Performance Year 2016 Quality and Resource Use Reports document is now available from the...
There is big news for wound care and hyperbaric medicine professionals and, for once, the news is good. The Benchmarks for Measures Included in the Performance Year 2016 Quality and Resource Use Reports document is now available from the...
There is big news for wound care...
05/02/2017
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Letter from the Editor
From the Editor
03/31/2017
When was the last time that you received a handwritten note in the mail with an actual stamp on it? I got one recently from Suha Sreeram, MD. Inside a beautiful card she had sent to me was an even more beautifully written note, thanking me...
When was the last time that you received a handwritten note in the mail with an actual stamp on it? I got one recently from Suha Sreeram, MD. Inside a beautiful card she had sent to me was an even more beautifully written note, thanking me...
When was the last time that you...
03/31/2017
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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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