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Practice Management

Medical Waste
Understanding the Physician’s Role in Reducing Medical Waste
01/03/2023
Rachel H. Albright, DPM, MPH
Physicians are not powerless in the fight toward reducing costs in health care. In fact, we may be armed with the most important information to assist in identifying areas of waste. Small changes made in our individual practices can have...
Physicians are not powerless in the fight toward reducing costs in health care. In fact, we may be armed with the most important information to assist in identifying areas of waste. Small changes made in our individual practices can have...
Physicians are not powerless in...
01/03/2023
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Workflow
Workflow Strategies: Review and Refine Your Goals in 2022
01/11/2022
Cathy Thomas Hess BSN RN CWCN
Consider the following CORE checklist as you review your work plan.
Consider the following CORE checklist as you review your work plan.
Consider the following CORE...
01/11/2022
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COVID-19
Conversion to a COVID-19 Testing Clinic: Roadmap to Survival
05/07/2021
Eric J. Lullove, DPM, CWSP, DABLES, FAPWH(c)
Approximately one year ago, I was like many of my fellow colleagues; taking care of routine care patients, performing wound care visits, providing ambulatory surgical services and in general, going out for dinner, seeing friends and family...
Approximately one year ago, I was like many of my fellow colleagues; taking care of routine care patients, performing wound care visits, providing ambulatory surgical services and in general, going out for dinner, seeing friends and family...
Approximately one year ago, I...
05/07/2021
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Cathy Thomas Hess
SPEAKING OF WOUNDS
The One Word That Defines Your Successful Workflows
03/10/2021
Cathy Thomas Hess, VP and Chief Clinical Officer for Net Health Wound Care
Listen to the full podcast, here.  Cathy Thomas Hess, VP and Chief Clinical Officer for Net Health Wound Care, discusses workflow strategies and management, regulatory and payment topics, and how you can ensure workflow success by focusing...
Listen to the full podcast, here.  Cathy Thomas Hess, VP and Chief Clinical Officer for Net Health Wound Care, discusses workflow strategies and management, regulatory and payment topics, and how you can ensure workflow success by focusing...
Listen to the full podcast,...
03/10/2021
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Cathy Thomas Hess BSN RN CWCN
Blog
Workflow Strategy Snapshots: Fresh Focus for the New Year
02/02/2021
Cathy Thomas Hess BSN RN CWCN
Kicking off any new year allows us to pause and reflect on the previous year’s actions and results. When you work within wound care, perhaps your first action this year was to review your schedule of patients to ensure they were provided the...
Kicking off any new year allows us to pause and reflect on the previous year’s actions and results. When you work within wound care, perhaps your first action this year was to review your schedule of patients to ensure they were provided the...
Kicking off any new year allows...
02/02/2021
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The Concierge Medicine Doctor: A Valuable Tool for The Wound Care Physician
Concierge Medicine
The Concierge Medicine Doctor: A Valuable Tool for The Wound Care Physician
01/04/2021

Amy Mynderse, MD

Amy Mynderse, MD
Physicians in wound clinics carry the responsibility of caring for millions of patients with wounds. Can concierge medicine physicians, who have a smaller patient population, help relieve the burden and provide personalized care? This author...
Physicians in wound clinics carry the responsibility of caring for millions of patients with wounds. Can concierge medicine physicians, who have a smaller patient population, help relieve the burden and provide personalized care? This author...
Physicians in wound clinics...
01/04/2021
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How Personalized Wound Care Diagnostics and Treatment Can Change Your Practice
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How Personalized Wound Care Diagnostics and Treatment Can Change Your Practice
01/04/2021
Survam Patel, PharmD
Kevin Rosenblatt, MD, PhD
Peter Bryant-Greenwood, MD
Modern molecular pathology laboratory practices are bringing their cutting edge genetic and molecular diagnostic techniques to contain costs in wound care. Customized pathogen panels offer the rapid detection of a multitude of microorganisms...
Modern molecular pathology laboratory practices are bringing their cutting edge genetic and molecular diagnostic techniques to contain costs in wound care. Customized pathogen panels offer the rapid detection of a multitude of microorganisms...
Modern molecular pathology...
01/04/2021
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Peer Interviewing
How a Burn and Wound Clinic Improved Staff Nurse Retention Through Peer Interviewing
11/05/2020

Kathleen Prestifilippo, RN, BSN, WCC; Emily Webb, RN, BSN, WCC; Fred Mullins, MD; Shawn Fagan, MD; Zaheed Hassan, MD; Bounthavy Homsombath, MD; Beretta Craft-Coffman, PA-C; Cynthia Currington, RN, BSN; Meganjoy Whelan; and Joan Wilson, MSN, MHA, RN

Kathleen Prestifilippo, RN, BSN, WCC;...
Using a peer interview process for hiring helped these authors forge a united and efficient team, as well as achieve facility compliance at their burn and wound clinic.
Using a peer interview process for hiring helped these authors forge a united and efficient team, as well as achieve facility compliance at their burn and wound clinic.
Using a peer interview process...
11/05/2020
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How Local Digital Marketing Can Increase Wound Clinic Referrals
Practice Management
How Local Digital Marketing Can Increase Wound Clinic Referrals
01/08/2020

Wade Farrow, MD, CWSP

Wade Farrow, MD, CWSP
Your wound clinic can increase referrals with an effective local digital marketing campaign. This author reviews some basic principles of effective marketing, including optimizing social media use, local search engine optimization and local...
Your wound clinic can increase referrals with an effective local digital marketing campaign. This author reviews some basic principles of effective marketing, including optimizing social media use, local search engine optimization and local...
Your wound clinic can increase...
01/08/2020
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Finances
An Introduction To Understanding, Articulating, and Managing Your Wound Clinic’s Finances
12/05/2019
Rafael Mazuz, MBA
Having a good grasp of your wound clinic’s finances can improve both patient care and enhance revenue. This author discusses what drives revenue and expenses, how to manage your clinic’s financial performance, and what metrics can improve...
Having a good grasp of your wound clinic’s finances can improve both patient care and enhance revenue. This author discusses what drives revenue and expenses, how to manage your clinic’s financial performance, and what metrics can improve...
Having a good grasp of your...
12/05/2019
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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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