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Why Telehealth Alone Won’t Solve the Burdens of Wound Management
Telehealth
Why Telehealth Alone Won’t Solve the Burdens of Wound Management
08/04/2020
Jonah Mink, MD
Although telehealth has proven a novel solution to the isolation necessitated by the pandemic, there is often no replacement for the human touch in wound care. This author describes a hybrid approach of digitizing wound management to assist...
Although telehealth has proven a novel solution to the isolation necessitated by the pandemic, there is often no replacement for the human touch in wound care. This author describes a hybrid approach of digitizing wound management to assist...
Although telehealth has proven a...
08/04/2020
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Taking Advantage of Telemedicine for Wound Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Telehealth
Taking Advantage of Telemedicine for Wound Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic
06/04/2020
Jayesh B. Shah, MD, MSc, UHM ABPM, CWSP, FAPWCA, FCCWS, FACHM FUHM, FACP
As COVID-19 has disrupted every day life, telemedicine has been invaluable in allowing patient treatment without the risk of infection. This author details his experience with telemedicine, particularly in nursing homes and in rural settings,...
As COVID-19 has disrupted every day life, telemedicine has been invaluable in allowing patient treatment without the risk of infection. This author details his experience with telemedicine, particularly in nursing homes and in rural settings,...
As COVID-19 has disrupted every...
06/04/2020
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Business Briefs
Test Your Knowledge: Coding for Telehealth Performed During the COVID-19 PHE
06/04/2020
Kathleen D. Schaum, MS
Information regarding coding, coverage, and payment is provided as a service to our readers. Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy. However, HMP and the author do not represent, guarantee, or warranty that coding, coverage, and...
Information regarding coding, coverage, and payment is provided as a service to our readers. Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy. However, HMP and the author do not represent, guarantee, or warranty that coding, coverage, and...
Information regarding coding,...
06/04/2020
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COVID-19
June 2, 2020 Update: Telehealth Waivers During COVID-19 Public Health Emergency
06/03/2020
Kathleen D. Schaum, MS
As social distancing becomes widespread to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, more health care professionals may turn to telehealth. This author explains what payment requirements for telehealth have been waived during this crisis.
As social distancing becomes widespread to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, more health care professionals may turn to telehealth. This author explains what payment requirements for telehealth have been waived during this crisis.
As social distancing becomes...
06/03/2020
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Telehealth
Adopting Telemedicine in Wound Care: Interprofessional Internet Consultations
01/31/2020
Elaine H. Song, MD, PhD, MBA
Kye Evans, DO, FACEP
Scott Robinson, MD
Tiffany Hamm, BSN, RN, ACHRN, CWS
Jeff Mize, RRT, CHT, CWC
Catherine T. Milne, APRN, MSN, CWOCN-AP
Samantha Kuplicki, MSN, APRN-CNS, AGCNS-BC, CWS, CWCN-AP, RNFA
Kathryn Whiston-Lemm, ACNP, CWCN, COCN-AP
Consulting with other medical professionals online may improve patient care and increase revenue for the wound clinic. These authors provide a guideline to consultations using telemedicine software, and detail how clinics can receive the...
Consulting with other medical professionals online may improve patient care and increase revenue for the wound clinic. These authors provide a guideline to consultations using telemedicine software, and detail how clinics can receive the...
Consulting with other medical...
01/31/2020
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Telemedicine
How Telemedicine Is Influencing Wound Care
08/06/2019
Jayesh B. Shah, MD, MSc, UHM ABPM, CWSP, FAPWCA, FCCWS, FACHM FUHM, FACP
Telemedicine is becoming popular in the healthcare industry. There are over a dozen telemedicine companies already working with doctors. Doctors have started seeing patients virtually for their non-emergency visits. 
Telemedicine is becoming popular in the healthcare industry. There are over a dozen telemedicine companies already working with doctors. Doctors have started seeing patients virtually for their non-emergency visits. 
Telemedicine is becoming popular...
08/06/2019
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History of Wound Care
The Audio-Visual Connection: A Brief History of Telemedicine
04/09/2019
Jaclyn Gaydos
Telemedicine [tel-uh-med-uh-sin]: the practice of medicine when the doctor and patient are widely separated using two-way voice and visual communication (as by satellite, computer, or closed-circuit television)1
Telemedicine [tel-uh-med-uh-sin]: the practice of medicine when the doctor and patient are widely separated using two-way voice and visual communication (as by satellite, computer, or closed-circuit television)1
Telemedicine...
04/09/2019
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Digital Health
4 Ways to Integrate Digital Health into the Wound Center Today
04/09/2019
Rafael Mazuz, MBA
With companies such as Amazon, Apple, and Google wading deeper into health care, there has been much talk and anticipation regarding what digital and mobile health will do to transform how health care is delivered and consumed. However,...
With companies such as Amazon, Apple, and Google wading deeper into health care, there has been much talk and anticipation regarding what digital and mobile health will do to transform how health care is delivered and consumed. However,...
With companies such as Amazon,...
04/09/2019
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Business Briefs
Is Telehealth On Your Radar Screen?
04/09/2019
Kathleen D. Schaum, MS
Information regarding coding, coverage, and payment is provided as a service to our readers. Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy. However, HMP and the author do not represent, guarantee, or warranty that coding, coverage, and...
Information regarding coding, coverage, and payment is provided as a service to our readers. Every effort has been made to ensure accuracy. However, HMP and the author do not represent, guarantee, or warranty that coding, coverage, and...
Information regarding coding,...
04/09/2019
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Telehealth
Highlighting Telemedicine
10/08/2009

Trisha Carlson, MSN, MBA-HCM, RN, CWCN, DAPWCA

Trisha Carlson, MSN, MBA-HCM, RN, CWC...
Chronic wound management requires frequent assessment of the wounds’ needs to evolve the plan of care and reach complete wound closure in a timely manner. This is often easier said than done, particularly for persons residing in rural...
Chronic wound management requires frequent assessment of the wounds’ needs to evolve the plan of care and reach complete wound closure in a timely manner. This is often easier said than done, particularly for persons residing in rural...
Chronic wound management...
10/08/2009
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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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