Shaun Carpenter MD, CWSP, WMS

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Overcoming Challenges in the Wound Clinic in 2023 and Looking to the Future

12/19/2023

Jayesh B. Shah , MD, MSc, UHM, ABPM, CWSP, FAPWCA;

Caroline E. Fife , MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM;

TWC board members share the clinical and reimbursement challenges they faced this year, with an eye toward a better 2024.

TWC board members share the...

12/19/2023

Today's Wound Clinic

Guest Editorial

Wound Size Matters: Analysis of the New Restrictive Skin Substitute LCD Policy

09/01/2023

Shaun Carpenter , MD, FAPWCA, CWSP;

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

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Skin Substitutes: Will CMS Restrict Access to Care for Our Most At-Risk Minority Patients?

04/13/2023

Shaun Carpenter , MD, FAPWCA, CWSP;

Patients of any race, especially at-risk minorities with multiple and/or larger wounds, must not be discriminated against by a bundled policy that restricts the treatment of larger wounds or policies that unreasonably restrict number of...

Patients of any race, especially...

04/13/2023

Today's Wound Clinic