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Initial Results Show Regenerative Healing of Skin
02/22/2018
PolarityTE (Salt Lake City, UT) announced the initial results of a clinical application of its recently launched SkinTE, a platform which uses a patient’s own cells to create a custom construct for skin regeneration. These new results yield...
PolarityTE (Salt Lake City, UT) announced the initial results of a clinical application of its recently launched SkinTE, a platform which uses a patient’s own cells to create a custom construct for skin regeneration. These new results yield...
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02/22/2018
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Expansion of Skin Regenerative Device Treatment Adds 20 Patients
02/22/2018
Avita Medical (Valencia, CA) announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved an additional 20 patients for treatment with the RECELL Autologous Cell Harvesting Device under its FDA Compassionate Use Investigational Device...
Avita Medical (Valencia, CA) announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved an additional 20 patients for treatment with the RECELL Autologous Cell Harvesting Device under its FDA Compassionate Use Investigational Device...
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02/22/2018
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New Distribution Agreement for Autografting Kit
02/22/2018
ACell, Inc (Columbia, MD) announced its exclusive distribution agreement with Applied Tissue Technologies LLC (Hingham, MA), making the former company the exclusive US distributor of the Xpansion micro-autografting kit. This product offers a...
ACell, Inc (Columbia, MD) announced its exclusive distribution agreement with Applied Tissue Technologies LLC (Hingham, MA), making the former company the exclusive US distributor of the Xpansion micro-autografting kit. This product offers a...
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02/22/2018
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Divested Wound Product Acquired by New Company
02/22/2018
Hydrofera LLC (Manchester, CT) announced that the company has acquired the Hydrofera business from Hollister Inc (Libertyville, IL). The terms of the sale were not disclosed. Tom Drury, a principle founder of the purchaser, will serve as the...
Hydrofera LLC (Manchester, CT) announced that the company has acquired the Hydrofera business from Hollister Inc (Libertyville, IL). The terms of the sale were not disclosed. Tom Drury, a principle founder of the purchaser, will serve as the...
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02/22/2018
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First Referral Algorithm for Wound Care Industry
02/20/2018
To help connect wound care specialists and local communities, Wound Care Advantage (Sierra Madre, CA) has created the FlightPlan, the industry’s first referral source algorithm. The algorithm makes it easy to identify local physicians capable...
To help connect wound care specialists and local communities, Wound Care Advantage (Sierra Madre, CA) has created the FlightPlan, the industry’s first referral source algorithm. The algorithm makes it easy to identify local physicians capable...
To help connect wound care...
02/20/2018
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Skin Barrier Reduces Ostomy Care Costs
02/20/2018
A recent study published in Journal of Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing demonstrated that the CeraPlus skin barrier (Hollister Inc, Libertyville, IL) had a positive impact on stoma-related cost of care and peristomal skin health. Patients...
A recent study published in Journal of Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing demonstrated that the CeraPlus skin barrier (Hollister Inc, Libertyville, IL) had a positive impact on stoma-related cost of care and peristomal skin health. Patients...
A recent study published...
02/20/2018
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Results Show Benefits to Pressure Monitoring System
02/20/2018
A study published in International Journal of Nursing Studies showed that patients who used the Leaf Patient Sensor (Leaf Healthcare, Inc, Pleasanton, CA) had a reduced rate of pressure injury development, which translated into a significant...
A study published in International Journal of Nursing Studies showed that patients who used the Leaf Patient Sensor (Leaf Healthcare, Inc, Pleasanton, CA) had a reduced rate of pressure injury development, which translated into a significant...
A study published...
02/20/2018
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Foam Dressing Significantly Reduces Pressure Ulcers
02/15/2018
Smith & Nephew (Fort Worth, TX) announced that ALLEVYN LIFE was shown to significantly reduce the onset of pressure ulcers in a study published in International Wound Journal. The randomized controlled trial of 359 elderly hip fracture...
Smith & Nephew (Fort Worth, TX) announced that ALLEVYN LIFE was shown to significantly reduce the onset of pressure ulcers in a study published in International Wound Journal. The randomized controlled trial of 359 elderly hip fracture...
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02/15/2018
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Company Divesting Its Wound Care Brand
02/07/2018
Hollister Inc (Libertyville, IL) announced that it will be divesting parts of its wound care business and portfolio, which includes its Hydrofera Blue, Endoform, TRIACT, and FastCast products. In particular, the methylene blue and gentian...
Hollister Inc (Libertyville, IL) announced that it will be divesting parts of its wound care business and portfolio, which includes its Hydrofera Blue, Endoform, TRIACT, and FastCast products. In particular, the methylene blue and gentian...
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02/07/2018
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Wound Care CEO Interviewed by Business Magazine
02/05/2018
Kevin Lamb, founder and chief executive officer of Advanced Tissue (Little Rock, AR), was recently featured in a Forbes column titled “The 10 CEOs Transforming Healthcare In America.” The column briefly details Advanced Tissue’s vision of...
Kevin Lamb, founder and chief executive officer of Advanced Tissue (Little Rock, AR), was recently featured in a Forbes column titled “The 10 CEOs Transforming Healthcare In America.” The column briefly details Advanced Tissue’s vision of...
Kevin Lamb, founder and chief...
02/05/2018
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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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