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Revenue
Physician Practice Management Insights: Revenue Cycle Tips When Beginning Your Practice
10/03/2018
Kathleen D. Schaum, MS
Physicians and other qualified healthcare professionals (QHPs) who choose to specialize in chronic wound management spend a significant amount of time honing their clinical skills. However, they often do not spend enough time polishing their...
Physicians and other qualified healthcare professionals (QHPs) who choose to specialize in chronic wound management spend a significant amount of time honing their clinical skills. However, they often do not spend enough time polishing their...
Physicians and other qualified...
10/03/2018
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Practice Management
Physician Quality Reporting System Checklist for Wound Care Providers: The Art of Documentation and Reporting
03/30/2016
Cathy Thomas Hess BSN RN CWCN
This article offers a go-to resource for quality measures reporting methods and guidelines for 2016.   
This article offers a go-to resource for quality measures reporting methods and guidelines for 2016.   
This article offers a go-to...
03/30/2016
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Practice Management
Achieving Collaborative Clinical & Operational Workflows in the Outpatient Wound Clinic
09/11/2015
Cathy Thomas Hess BSN RN CWCN
Wound care clinics continue to operate under multidisciplinary models. Implementing effective workflows is essential to producing optimal outcomes.   
Wound care clinics continue to operate under multidisciplinary models. Implementing effective workflows is essential to producing optimal outcomes.   
Wound care clinics continue to...
09/11/2015
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Practice Management
A Health & Wellness Plan for Managing YOUR Wound Clinic
09/11/2015
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
It is possible for hospitals and wound care providers to manage their own clinics without external oversight. Here’s how to do so appropriately, safely, and successfully.
It is possible for hospitals and wound care providers to manage their own clinics without external oversight. Here’s how to do so appropriately, safely, and successfully.
It is possible for hospitals and...
09/11/2015
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Practice Management
Clinic Management Models: Participating in the Large Management Company’s Approach to Care & Business
09/11/2015

Christopher A. Morrison, MD, FACHM, FCCWS & Jessica Taft

Christopher A. Morrison, MD, FACHM, F...
As with any business, there are multiple types of philosophies when it comes to wound management companies — just as there are pros, cons, and tradeoffs to any form of business model. However, the one constant among all management companies...
As with any business, there are multiple types of philosophies when it comes to wound management companies — just as there are pros, cons, and tradeoffs to any form of business model. However, the one constant among all management companies...
As with any business, there are...
09/11/2015
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Practice Management
Clinic Management Models: Finding Your Way with The ‘Quick Start’ GPS Method
09/11/2015

Darlene Carey, MBA

Darlene Carey, MBA
The wound care industry has changed dramatically since regulations for hospital-based outpatient departments (HOPDs) in the mid-1990s created what we think of as the “outpatient wound clinic.” The changes have been so significant, in fact,...
The wound care industry has changed dramatically since regulations for hospital-based outpatient departments (HOPDs) in the mid-1990s created what we think of as the “outpatient wound clinic.” The changes have been so significant, in fact,...
The wound care industry has...
09/11/2015
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Workflow
Optimizing Wound Care Processes and Workflows to Drive Documentation Compliance
04/10/2013

Cathy Thomas Hess, BSN, RN, CWOCN

Cathy Thomas Hess, BSN, RN, CWOCN ...
  When thinking about the goals of documentation, consider the following:     • Any word has a singular meaning.     • Words placed in a particular order and sequence along with punctuation create a sentence.     • Sentences denote thoughts....
  When thinking about the goals of documentation, consider the following:     • Any word has a singular meaning.     • Words placed in a particular order and sequence along with punctuation create a sentence.     • Sentences denote thoughts....
  When thinking about the goals...
04/10/2013
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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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