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Volume 5 Issue 3 - April 2011

Column

Letter from the Editor
From the Editor: Treating the Underinsured
04/08/2011
Caroline Fife
Caroline Fife
  I went to a medical meeting in China in October and it was an eye-opening experience. We toured several hospitals, which serve a city of a mind boggling 30 million people in central China. The way in which modern technology meets the...
  I went to a medical meeting in China in October and it was an eye-opening experience. We toured several hospitals, which serve a city of a mind boggling 30 million people in central China. The way in which modern technology meets the...
  I went to a medical meeting in...
04/08/2011
Today's Wound Clinic
Business Briefs
Business Briefs: 2011 Medicare Payment for Therapists in Wound Clinics
04/08/2011
Kathleen D. Schaum, MS
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 the accuracy of the information. However, HMP Communications and the author do not represent, guarantee, or...
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. However, HMP Communications and the author do not represent, guarantee, or...
Information regarding coding,...
04/08/2011
Today's Wound Clinic
Navigating the Maze of Patient Assistance
04/08/2011
Dot Weir, RN, CWON, CWS; Melodie Blakely, MS, PT, CWS
Dot Weir, RN, CWON, CWS; Melodie Blak...
  Patients receiving care in an outpatient wound center often present challenges that go beyond the scope of our clinical skills. Today’s economic climate finds us caring for more patients who are either non-insured, under-insured, or on a...
  Patients receiving care in an outpatient wound center often present challenges that go beyond the scope of our clinical skills. Today’s economic climate finds us caring for more patients who are either non-insured, under-insured, or on a...
  Patients receiving care in an...
04/08/2011
Today's Wound Clinic
HIPAA and HITECH: Where Are Your Photos … Do You Know?
04/08/2011
Caroline E. Fife, MD and Kevin W. Yankowsky, JD
Caroline E. Fife, MD and Kevin W. Yan...
  A few months ago, several employees at a Florida hospital were disciplined after taking unauthorized cell phone pictures of a shark attack victim and posting them on the web. Most of us would instantly recognize that sort of behavior as a...
  A few months ago, several employees at a Florida hospital were disciplined after taking unauthorized cell phone pictures of a shark attack victim and posting them on the web. Most of us would instantly recognize that sort of behavior as a...
  A few months ago, several...
04/08/2011
Today's Wound Clinic
Exploring Partnerships
04/08/2011
  Today’s Wound Clinic recently spoke with Mary Hirsch, RN, MHSA, CWS, ACHRN, the Chief Operations Officer at MATRIX Health Services regarding finances and revenue for wound care clinics. Matrix is a growing company focused on developing...
  Today’s Wound Clinic recently spoke with Mary Hirsch, RN, MHSA, CWS, ACHRN, the Chief Operations Officer at MATRIX Health Services regarding finances and revenue for wound care clinics. Matrix is a growing company focused on developing...
  Today’s Wound Clinic recently...
04/08/2011
Today's Wound Clinic
Developing A Policy Based On Your Needs
04/08/2011
Dr. Thomas E. Serena MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA
Dr. Thomas E. Serena MD, FACS, FACHM,...
  “There is no greater thing than standing victorious in the arena. You have earned a glorious death, and shall die at the hands of a gladiator.” -Crixus, Sparticus
  “There is no greater thing than standing victorious in the arena. You have earned a glorious death, and shall die at the hands of a gladiator.” -Crixus, Sparticus
  “There is no greater thing...
04/08/2011
Today's Wound Clinic
Product Roundup
Compression Pump Companies
04/06/2011
NormaTec Website: www.NormaTecUSA.com Phone: (800) 335-0960 E-mail info@NormatecUSA.com Location: Newton Center, MA Founded:NormaTec Industries, LP (doing business as “NormaTec”) was founded in 2004 1.) What specific types of product lines...
NormaTec Website: www.NormaTecUSA.com Phone: (800) 335-0960 E-mail info@NormatecUSA.com Location: Newton Center, MA Founded:NormaTec Industries, LP (doing business as “NormaTec”) was founded in 2004 1.) What specific types of product lines...
NormaTec Website:...
04/06/2011
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Feature

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Industry Insider: An Inside Look at Sechrist Industries, Inc.
04/06/2011
  Today’s Wound Clinic recently interviewed Monica Gutierrez, Vice President Marketing and Customer Development, at Sechrist Industries, Inc. Monica spoke about her company’s mission and goals for the future. Today’s Wound Clinic (TWC): How...
  Today’s Wound Clinic recently interviewed Monica Gutierrez, Vice President Marketing and Customer Development, at Sechrist Industries, Inc. Monica spoke about her company’s mission and goals for the future. Today’s Wound Clinic (TWC): How...
  Today’s Wound Clinic recently...
04/06/2011
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Clinician's Report
Clinician`s Report: HBOT Manufacturing
04/06/2011
Perry Baromedical Location: Riviera Beach, FL Founded: 1956 Web: www.perrybaromedical.com E-mail: kperusse@perryhbo.com What specific types of product lines that you make? • Hyperbaric Chambers: Monoplace (single person) Sigma 34 Largest 34”...
Perry Baromedical Location: Riviera Beach, FL Founded: 1956 Web: www.perrybaromedical.com E-mail: kperusse@perryhbo.com What specific types of product lines that you make? • Hyperbaric Chambers: Monoplace (single person) Sigma 34 Largest 34”...
Perry Baromedical Location:...
04/06/2011
Today's Wound Clinic

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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
Today's Wound Clinic
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
Today's Wound Clinic
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
Today's Wound Clinic
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
Today's Wound Clinic
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
Today's Wound Clinic
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
Today's Wound Clinic
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
Today's Wound Clinic
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
Today's Wound Clinic
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
Today's Wound Clinic
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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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
Today's Wound Clinic
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
Today's Wound Clinic
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
Today's Wound Clinic
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
Today's Wound Clinic

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