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Tissue Allograft Improves Ulcer Outcomes
09/07/2018
In a recently published study, treatment with EpiFix (MiMedx Group, Inc, Marietta, GA) was found to be more effective for wound closure than standard of care (SOC). The dehydrated human amnion/chorion membrane (dHACM) was compared in 2...
In a recently published study, treatment with EpiFix (MiMedx Group, Inc, Marietta, GA) was found to be more effective for wound closure than standard of care (SOC). The dehydrated human amnion/chorion membrane (dHACM) was compared in 2...
In a recently published study,...
09/07/2018
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Fluorescence Imaging Device Receives Clearance
08/15/2018
The MolecuLight i:X (MolecuLight Inc, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) received de novo clearance from the Food and Drug Administration, permitting expansion of the product into the United States market. The product is indicated as a handheld...
The MolecuLight i:X (MolecuLight Inc, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) received de novo clearance from the Food and Drug Administration, permitting expansion of the product into the United States market. The product is indicated as a handheld...
The MolecuLight i:X (MolecuLight...
08/15/2018
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Spider Silk Has Wound Healing Potential
08/15/2018
A recently published study has proposed a novel use for insect-spun silk: artificial skin and wound dressings. Researchers in Sweden and India combined the silk fibroin from silkworms and the silk proteins from spiders to create 2 types of...
A recently published study has proposed a novel use for insect-spun silk: artificial skin and wound dressings. Researchers in Sweden and India combined the silk fibroin from silkworms and the silk proteins from spiders to create 2 types of...
A recently published study has...
08/15/2018
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New Antimicrobial Approved by Committee
08/10/2018
Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc (Boston, MA), announced that the Antimicrobials Drug Advisory Committee of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the use of intravenous (IV) and oral omadacycline for the treatment of acute bacterial...
Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc (Boston, MA), announced that the Antimicrobials Drug Advisory Committee of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the use of intravenous (IV) and oral omadacycline for the treatment of acute bacterial...
Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc...
08/10/2018
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Cancer Surgery Company Expands into Wounds
08/10/2018
Lumicell, Inc (Wellesley, MA), a company specializing in image-guided cancer surgery, announced its newest division in wound care, infection, and perfusion. The company looks to utilize its expertise in concurrent engineering to create...
Lumicell, Inc (Wellesley, MA), a company specializing in image-guided cancer surgery, announced its newest division in wound care, infection, and perfusion. The company looks to utilize its expertise in concurrent engineering to create...
Lumicell, Inc (Wellesley, MA), a...
08/10/2018
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New 1-Ounce Sized Gel Promotes Healing
08/09/2018
A new 1-ounce size of Prontosan Wound Gel X (B. Braun Medical, Inc, Bethlehem, PA) is now available in the United States market. This patient-friendly, smaller tube is a convenient and economical size for home care. Like the larger 250-mg...
A new 1-ounce size of Prontosan Wound Gel X (B. Braun Medical, Inc, Bethlehem, PA) is now available in the United States market. This patient-friendly, smaller tube is a convenient and economical size for home care. Like the larger 250-mg...
A new 1-ounce size of Prontosan...
08/09/2018
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Federal Supply Schedule for Wound Matrix
08/08/2018
Acera Surgical (St Louis, MO) announced that it received a Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract from the National Acquisition Center of the Department of Veterans Affairs (Hines, IL). Effective until August 2023, the FSS contract allows...
Acera Surgical (St Louis, MO) announced that it received a Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contract from the National Acquisition Center of the Department of Veterans Affairs (Hines, IL). Effective until August 2023, the FSS contract allows...
Acera Surgical (St Louis, MO)...
08/08/2018
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Despite Savings, HBOT Experiment Ended
07/26/2018
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced that it will not continue an experiment that saved millions of dollars by reducing nonemergent hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT). Since launching in 2015, this experiment...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced that it will not continue an experiment that saved millions of dollars by reducing nonemergent hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT). Since launching in 2015, this experiment...
The Centers for Medicare and...
07/26/2018
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New Ointments for Wound Care Available
07/24/2018
LAVIOR (Las Vegas, NV) introduced its new D-Care and W-Care ointments to the market for the care and management of chronic wound and inflammatory skin conditions. These ointments use a proprietary extract, AGS BOTANICAL, for an all-in-one...
LAVIOR (Las Vegas, NV) introduced its new D-Care and W-Care ointments to the market for the care and management of chronic wound and inflammatory skin conditions. These ointments use a proprietary extract, AGS BOTANICAL, for an all-in-one...
LAVIOR (Las Vegas, NV)...
07/24/2018
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Telehealth Solution Wins Award
07/24/2018
MyWoundDoctor, LLC (Nashville, TN), received the 2nd Place Prize and the AARP Audience Choice Award at the 2018 Northeastern University Nurse Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition (Boston, MA). The telehealth wound care service provides...
MyWoundDoctor, LLC (Nashville, TN), received the 2nd Place Prize and the AARP Audience Choice Award at the 2018 Northeastern University Nurse Innovation & Entrepreneurship Competition (Boston, MA). The telehealth wound care service provides...
MyWoundDoctor, LLC (Nashville,...
07/24/2018
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Letter From the Editor

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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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