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Frozen Placenta Closes Pressure Ulcer in Study
04/23/2018
A study published in the March 2018 issue of Wounds (HMP, Malvern, PA) is receiving attention from McKnight’s Long-Term Care News for its success in closing a hard-to-heal pressure ulcer. The case series used Grafix (Osiris Therapeutics, Inc,...
A study published in the March 2018 issue of Wounds (HMP, Malvern, PA) is receiving attention from McKnight’s Long-Term Care News for its success in closing a hard-to-heal pressure ulcer. The case series used Grafix (Osiris Therapeutics, Inc,...
A study published in the March...
04/23/2018
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New Hyaluronic Acid-based Wound Dressing Developed
04/23/2018
Researchers at Kaunas University of Technology (Kaunas, Lithuania) have developed a sponge-like wound dressing made with hyaluronic acid. Hyaluronic acid is used in other medical purposes such as ophthalmology and bone regeneration.  This...
Researchers at Kaunas University of Technology (Kaunas, Lithuania) have developed a sponge-like wound dressing made with hyaluronic acid. Hyaluronic acid is used in other medical purposes such as ophthalmology and bone regeneration.  This...
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04/23/2018
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New Wound Gel Launch at National Conference
04/23/2018
B. Braun Medical (Bethlehem, PA) introduced a new patient-friendly 1-ounce tube of Prontosan Wound Gel X at the 2018 Symposium on Advanced Wound Care Spring in Charlotte, North Carolina. The gel, which contains betaine and polyhexanide to...
B. Braun Medical (Bethlehem, PA) introduced a new patient-friendly 1-ounce tube of Prontosan Wound Gel X at the 2018 Symposium on Advanced Wound Care Spring in Charlotte, North Carolina. The gel, which contains betaine and polyhexanide to...
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04/23/2018
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Telemedicine Aims to Reduce Wound Care Lawsuits
04/23/2018
Telemedicine Soultions LLC (Schaumburg, IL) announced the launch of WoundRounds Defender, a feature set for its telemedicine platform for treating wounds. This new add-on helps skilled nurses automate documentation throughout a patient’s time...
Telemedicine Soultions LLC (Schaumburg, IL) announced the launch of WoundRounds Defender, a feature set for its telemedicine platform for treating wounds. This new add-on helps skilled nurses automate documentation throughout a patient’s time...
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04/23/2018
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New Diabetic Foot Ulcer Treatment Gets Approvals
04/23/2018
Origin, Inc (Princeton, NJ), a biotechnology company, announced that the US Food and Drug Administration approved the company’s request to conclude patient recruitment for the “GENESIS” Phase IIb trial of plasma-generated nitric oxide in...
Origin, Inc (Princeton, NJ), a biotechnology company, announced that the US Food and Drug Administration approved the company’s request to conclude patient recruitment for the “GENESIS” Phase IIb trial of plasma-generated nitric oxide in...
Origin, Inc (Princeton, NJ), a...
04/23/2018
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New Fundraising Total For Wound Care Software Company
04/10/2018
Swift Medical (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) has secured $11.6 million in funding from American and Canadian investors. The oversubscribed Series A fundraising will be used to expand the company to more skilled nursing facilities, home health...
Swift Medical (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) has secured $11.6 million in funding from American and Canadian investors. The oversubscribed Series A fundraising will be used to expand the company to more skilled nursing facilities, home health...
Swift Medical (Toronto, Ontario,...
04/10/2018
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CMS News Center
04/05/2018
CMS Lowers Prescription Drug Costs for Medicare Beneficiaries  The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently finalized polices for Medicare health and drug plans for 2019 that will save Medicare beneficiaries money on...
CMS Lowers Prescription Drug Costs for Medicare Beneficiaries  The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently finalized polices for Medicare health and drug plans for 2019 that will save Medicare beneficiaries money on...
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04/05/2018
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Biotech Company Receives Grant For Infection Study
04/03/2018
Arrevus, Inc (Raleigh, NC), a biotechnology company focused on fighting antibiotic resistance, received a $300 000 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health. The grant will...
Arrevus, Inc (Raleigh, NC), a biotechnology company focused on fighting antibiotic resistance, received a $300 000 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health. The grant will...
Arrevus, Inc (Raleigh, NC), a...
04/03/2018
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Two New Wound Imaging Products Launched
04/03/2018
ARANZ Medical (Christchurch, New Zealand) announced the launch of 2 new additions to its portfolio of smartphone-based wound imaging products. The easy-to-use and highly portable SilhouetteLite and SilhouetteLite+ mobile phone applications...
ARANZ Medical (Christchurch, New Zealand) announced the launch of 2 new additions to its portfolio of smartphone-based wound imaging products. The easy-to-use and highly portable SilhouetteLite and SilhouetteLite+ mobile phone applications...
ARANZ Medical (Christchurch, New...
04/03/2018
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New Smaller Size for Antimicrobial Matrix
03/15/2018
Organogenesis Inc (Canton, MA) released a new 1.6-cm disc size for its PuraPly Antimicrobial wound management product. In addition to the range of sizes already on the market, the unique, easy-to-use size is now available. The antimicrobial...
Organogenesis Inc (Canton, MA) released a new 1.6-cm disc size for its PuraPly Antimicrobial wound management product. In addition to the range of sizes already on the market, the unique, easy-to-use size is now available. The antimicrobial...
Organogenesis Inc (Canton, MA)...
03/15/2018
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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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