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Volume 5 Issue 1 - January/February 2011

Feature

Clinician's Report
Debridement Products
02/10/2011
MISONIX, INC. Address: 1938 New Highway Farmingdale, NY 11735 Phone: (631) 694-9555 Website: www.misonix.com Contact: Michele Kennedy, Product Director (631) 927-9184 MKENNEDY@MISONIX.COM Description of Debridement Product including clinical...
MISONIX, INC. Address: 1938 New Highway Farmingdale, NY 11735 Phone: (631) 694-9555 Website: www.misonix.com Contact: Michele Kennedy, Product Director (631) 927-9184 MKENNEDY@MISONIX.COM Description of Debridement Product including clinical...
MISONIX, INC. Address: 1938 New...
02/10/2011
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Challenges
Sorting Through The Choice Of A Management Company
02/08/2011
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled. -Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled. -Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a wood,...
02/08/2011
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Infographic
An Inside Look At Advanced BioHealing
02/04/2011
Today’s Wound Clinic spoke to Dean Tozer, who is currently Senior Vice President of Advanced BioHealing, to find out more about the company’s goals and projects for the future. Today’s Wound Clinic (TWC): When was your company founded and...
Today’s Wound Clinic spoke to Dean Tozer, who is currently Senior Vice President of Advanced BioHealing, to find out more about the company’s goals and projects for the future. Today’s Wound Clinic (TWC): When was your company founded and...
Today’s Wound Clinic spoke to...
02/04/2011
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Column

Business Briefs
Business Briefs - Chart 3
02/08/2011
The Business Briefs section of the Jan/Feb issue of TWC references this Chart 3, which you can download now. For the full article please subscribe in print. Subscribe to the print version of Today’s Wound Clinic now to receive exclusive...
The Business Briefs section of the Jan/Feb issue of TWC references this Chart 3, which you can download now. For the full article please subscribe in print. Subscribe to the print version of Today’s Wound Clinic now to receive exclusive...
The Business Briefs section of...
02/08/2011
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Business Briefs
Business Briefs: 2011 Debridement Codes Have Changed – Be Sure Your Wound Care Team Implements the Changes
02/08/2011
Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information. However, HMP Communications and the author do not represent, guarantee, or warranty that the coding, coverage, and payment information is error-free and/or that payment...
Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information. However, HMP Communications and the author do not represent, guarantee, or warranty that the coding, coverage, and payment information is error-free and/or that payment...
Every effort has been made to...
02/08/2011
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Letter from the Editor
From the Editor: The Debridement Issue
02/08/2011
  This issue of TWC focuses on wound debridement because the codes for billing debridement services changed January 1, 2011. If you missed this newsflash, then you desperately need this issue of TWC. Debridement may be among the most...
  This issue of TWC focuses on wound debridement because the codes for billing debridement services changed January 1, 2011. If you missed this newsflash, then you desperately need this issue of TWC. Debridement may be among the most...
  This issue of TWC focuses on...
02/08/2011
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Dedication
02/08/2011
  The Today’s Wound Clinic staff would like to dedicate this issue to our co-clinical editor Dot Weir’s husband—Robin Duane Weir.
  The Today’s Wound Clinic staff would like to dedicate this issue to our co-clinical editor Dot Weir’s husband—Robin Duane Weir.
  The Today’s Wound Clinic staff...
02/08/2011
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The Decline and Fall of the Dabbler Model: The Perfect Storm
02/08/2011
  As a society, we are currently embarking on an unprecedented era of healthcare with many challenges. There are a number of factors that are beyond our control that will have a significant impact on our ability to deliver timely, efficient...
  As a society, we are currently embarking on an unprecedented era of healthcare with many challenges. There are a number of factors that are beyond our control that will have a significant impact on our ability to deliver timely, efficient...
  As a society, we are currently...
02/08/2011
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Product Roundup
Off-Loading Devices
02/04/2011
Darco International, Inc. Website: www.darcointernational.com Contact: (800) 999-8866, jauvil@darcointernational.com Location: Huntington, WV Founded: 1985 Product Lines: OrthoWedge Forefoot Offloading Shoe, HeelWedge Offloading Shoe, Wound...
Darco International, Inc. Website: www.darcointernational.com Contact: (800) 999-8866, jauvil@darcointernational.com Location: Huntington, WV Founded: 1985 Product Lines: OrthoWedge Forefoot Offloading Shoe, HeelWedge Offloading Shoe, Wound...
Darco International,...
02/04/2011
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The Debridement Dilemma Returns
02/04/2011
  In 2007, TWC published an issue on debridement, which included a “test” for clinicians to help them assess their ability to properly code these procedures. Kathleen Schaum, Dot Weir and I worked hard on that issue and found that despite the...
  In 2007, TWC published an issue on debridement, which included a “test” for clinicians to help them assess their ability to properly code these procedures. Kathleen Schaum, Dot Weir and I worked hard on that issue and found that despite the...
  In 2007, TWC published an...
02/04/2011
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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
Today's Wound Clinic
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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