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Clinical and Industry News
News January 2023
01/06/2023
MiMedx to Expand Wound & Surgical Product Pipeline Expansion With Agreement With Turn Therapeutics ... MolecuLight Featured in Vizient Tech Watch as Key Technology for Visualizing Bacterial Burden and Helping Reduce SSI ... Topical Oxygen...
MiMedx to Expand Wound & Surgical Product Pipeline Expansion With Agreement With Turn Therapeutics ... MolecuLight Featured in Vizient Tech Watch as Key Technology for Visualizing Bacterial Burden and Helping Reduce SSI ... Topical Oxygen...
MiMedx to Expand Wound &...
01/06/2023
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Wound Policy and Advocacy Update
An Overview of the 2023 CMS Payment Policies Impacting Wound Care
12/08/2022
Marcia Nusgart, RPh
With the help of the policy experts and advocates at the Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders, below is a summary of the provisions most relevant to wound care.
With the help of the policy experts and advocates at the Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders, below is a summary of the provisions most relevant to wound care.
With the help of the policy...
12/08/2022
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Wound Policy and Advocacy Update
2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: Wound Care Wins, Challenges, and Opportunities
11/30/2022
Marcia Nusgart, RPh
As a result of elevating a united voice for wound care to CMS and to members of Congress, problematic policies that would have challenged physician offices with reduced payments, created barriers to access, and negatively impacted clinical...
As a result of elevating a united voice for wound care to CMS and to members of Congress, problematic policies that would have challenged physician offices with reduced payments, created barriers to access, and negatively impacted clinical...
As a result of elevating a...
11/30/2022
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Clinical and Industry News
News November 2022
11/10/2022
Net Health Integrates with PointClickCare for Post-Acute Wound Care Providers ... MolecuLight Point-of-Care Wound Imaging Devices Awarded Group Purchasing Agreement ... BioTissue Completes Name Change
Net Health Integrates with PointClickCare for Post-Acute Wound Care Providers ... MolecuLight Point-of-Care Wound Imaging Devices Awarded Group Purchasing Agreement ... BioTissue Completes Name Change
Net Health Integrates with...
11/10/2022
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Wound Policy and Advocacy Update
Remove Patient Access Barriers by Correcting Inadequacies in CTP Payments in the 2023 Hospital OPPS Proposed Rule
09/26/2022
Marcia Nusgart, RPh
The Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders recently urged CMS to update inadequate payment methodologies for CTPs to ensure appropriate access to care in the hospital outpatient/provider-based department site of service.
The Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders recently urged CMS to update inadequate payment methodologies for CTPs to ensure appropriate access to care in the hospital outpatient/provider-based department site of service.
The Alliance of Wound Care...
09/26/2022
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Wound Policy and Advocacy Update
Could Proposed Policy Changes in the 2023 Physician Fee Schedule Increase Amputations and Infections in Patients With Wounds?
09/12/2022
Marcia Nusgart, RPh
The Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders told CMS that sweeping proposed changes to the way CTPs are paid for and coded in the physician office will limit patient access.
The Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders told CMS that sweeping proposed changes to the way CTPs are paid for and coded in the physician office will limit patient access.
The Alliance of Wound Care...
09/12/2022
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Clinical and Industry News
News August 2022
08/12/2022
3M Touts Easier NPWT With Instillation for Clinicians ... New RCT: MolecuLight Fluorescence Imaging Improved 12-Week Wound Healing by 204% in DFUs ... BioTissue Co-Founder Recognized as Pioneer in Amniotic Membrane Technology Research for...
3M Touts Easier NPWT With Instillation for Clinicians ... New RCT: MolecuLight Fluorescence Imaging Improved 12-Week Wound Healing by 204% in DFUs ... BioTissue Co-Founder Recognized as Pioneer in Amniotic Membrane Technology Research for...
3M Touts Easier NPWT With...
08/12/2022
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Clinical and Industry News
News June 2022
06/22/2022
Natrox® Wound Care Expands into the Digital Arena With Natrox® IQ ... FDA Grants Breakthrough Device Status to Net Health’s Tissue Analytics for Wound Care ... MolecuLight Receives Point-of-Care Wound Imaging Devices Agreement With Premier,...
Natrox® Wound Care Expands into the Digital Arena With Natrox® IQ ... FDA Grants Breakthrough Device Status to Net Health’s Tissue Analytics for Wound Care ... MolecuLight Receives Point-of-Care Wound Imaging Devices Agreement With Premier,...
Natrox® Wound Care Expands into...
06/22/2022
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FDA Asks for Comment Following Chronic Wounds Workshop
06/17/2022
Make your voice heard on nonhealing chronic wounds.
Make your voice heard on nonhealing chronic wounds.
Make your voice heard on...
06/17/2022
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Wound Policy and Advocacy Update
Wound Care Community: Let’s Make Our Voices Heard to Drive Payer and Regulator Acceptance of Real-World Evidence
03/29/2022
Marcia Nusgart, RPh
Today the doors are finally opening to payer and regulator recognition that there is value to real-world data and the use of it to generate real-world evidence.
Today the doors are finally opening to payer and regulator recognition that there is value to real-world data and the use of it to generate real-world evidence.
Today the doors are finally...
03/29/2022
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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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