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Volume 6 Issue 5 - June/July 2012

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Business Briefs
Business Briefs: Are You Prepared to Answer Questions About New Medicare Summary Notices?
06/12/2012
Information regarding coding, coverage, and payment is provided as a service to our readers. Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information. HMP Communications and the authors do not represent, guarantee, or warranty...
Information regarding coding, coverage, and payment is provided as a service to our readers. Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information. HMP Communications and the authors do not represent, guarantee, or warranty...
Information regarding coding,...
06/12/2012
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From the Editor: Focus on Feet
06/12/2012
  A patient of mine developed a popular prescription drug that’s frequently advertised on TV. A brilliant physician who presented with plantar foot ulcers on both feet the first time we met, he claimed to have acquired the ulcers from walking...
  A patient of mine developed a popular prescription drug that’s frequently advertised on TV. A brilliant physician who presented with plantar foot ulcers on both feet the first time we met, he claimed to have acquired the ulcers from walking...
  A patient of mine developed a...
06/12/2012
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News Update
Industry News
06/12/2012
Study Links Drug, Cancer Risk   A study recently concluded by researchers in Canada has found an association between use of pioglitazone, a drug used to treat type 2 diabetes, and increased risk of bladder cancer. According to the findings,...
Study Links Drug, Cancer Risk   A study recently concluded by researchers in Canada has found an association between use of pioglitazone, a drug used to treat type 2 diabetes, and increased risk of bladder cancer. According to the findings,...
Study Links Drug, Cancer...
06/12/2012
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Navigating the Inherient Dangers of Patient Referrals
06/12/2012
  Like any relationship, the bond between a healthcare provider and a patient is heavily based on faith, trust, and communication. Patients rely on their providers to be their advocates, to always have their best interests at the forefront,...
  Like any relationship, the bond between a healthcare provider and a patient is heavily based on faith, trust, and communication. Patients rely on their providers to be their advocates, to always have their best interests at the forefront,...
  Like any relationship, the...
06/12/2012
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Treating Painful Neuropathy Associated with Diabetes
06/12/2012
  In today’s healthcare scene there are many etiologies of neuropathy. None, however, is more prevalent than that which is related to diabetes, considering the growing global epidemic of the disease. Significant diabetic neuropathy typically...
  In today’s healthcare scene there are many etiologies of neuropathy. None, however, is more prevalent than that which is related to diabetes, considering the growing global epidemic of the disease. Significant diabetic neuropathy typically...
  In today’s healthcare scene...
06/12/2012
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Lower Extremity Ulcer Management: Practical Concepts
06/12/2012
  Lower extremity ulcerations are an ever-increasing problem in this country, particularly among those patients living with diabetes. Due to the continued surge in the disease’s presence throughout the general population (along with...
  Lower extremity ulcerations are an ever-increasing problem in this country, particularly among those patients living with diabetes. Due to the continued surge in the disease’s presence throughout the general population (along with...
  Lower extremity ulcerations...
06/12/2012
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Addressing Diabetes Control: What Clinicians Must Know
06/12/2012
  While many comorbidities have the potential to impact wound healing, this is especially true of diabetes mellitus (DM), a common disease among patients living with wounds. The impairments related to the disease state of DM affect all wound...
  While many comorbidities have the potential to impact wound healing, this is especially true of diabetes mellitus (DM), a common disease among patients living with wounds. The impairments related to the disease state of DM affect all wound...
  While many comorbidities have...
06/12/2012
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Feature

Infographic
An Inside Look at Net Health Systems Inc.
06/12/2012
An interview with Christopher Hayes, chief technology officer.   Today’s Wound Clinic (TWC): How long have you been in wound care, and how did you enter this area of healthcare?   Christopher Hayes (CH): I started with Net Health as an...
An interview with Christopher Hayes, chief technology officer.   Today’s Wound Clinic (TWC): How long have you been in wound care, and how did you enter this area of healthcare?   Christopher Hayes (CH): I started with Net Health as an...
An interview with Christopher...
06/12/2012
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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
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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