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Volume 10 Issue 11 - November 2016

News

News
Product News
11/23/2016
B. Braun Launches Prontosan® Wound Gel X
B. Braun Launches Prontosan® Wound Gel X
B. Braun Launches Prontosan®...
11/23/2016
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News
Wound Clinic News & Notes
11/23/2016
Wound Center Earns Excellence Award Niagara Falls (NY) Memorial Medical Center has been named a “Center of Excellence” by Restorix Health, a management company based in White Plains, NY.
Wound Center Earns Excellence Award Niagara Falls (NY) Memorial Medical Center has been named a “Center of Excellence” by Restorix Health, a management company based in White Plains, NY.
Wound Center Earns Excellence...
11/23/2016
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Industry Insider News
11/23/2016
Wound Care Researcher Earns Lifetime Achievement Award
Wound Care Researcher Earns Lifetime Achievement Award
Wound Care Researcher Earns...
11/23/2016
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Nestlé Health Science & Nestlé Nutrition Institute: Q&A
11/22/2016
By sharing science-based information and education with health professionals, scientists, nutrition communities, and stakeholders, the Nestlé Nutrition Institute fosters “science for better nutrition” to contribute to improving the quality of...
By sharing science-based information and education with health professionals, scientists, nutrition communities, and stakeholders, the Nestlé Nutrition Institute fosters “science for better nutrition” to contribute to improving the quality of...
By sharing science-based...
11/22/2016
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CMS News Center
11/16/2016
MAC Announces Prepayment Probe Review for Outpatient HBOT
MAC Announces Prepayment Probe Review for Outpatient HBOT
MAC Announces Prepayment Probe...
11/16/2016
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Skin Care & the Wound Clinic: Employing Nutrient-Rich Skin Care for the Improvement of Stasis Ulcers & Dermatitis
11/16/2016
D. Elizabeth McCord, PhD, FAPWCA; Kyle D. Hilsabeck, PhD; & Nancy B. Ray, PhD
D. Elizabeth McCord, PhD, FAPWCA; Kyl...
It has been estimated that 1% of individuals in the Western population are living with venous (stasis) leg ulcers and approximately 2.5 million Americans are experiencing chronic venous insufficiency (CVI), which can lead to stasis ulcers and...
It has been estimated that 1% of individuals in the Western population are living with venous (stasis) leg ulcers and approximately 2.5 million Americans are experiencing chronic venous insufficiency (CVI), which can lead to stasis ulcers and...
It has been estimated that 1% of...
11/16/2016
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Column

Facility in Focus
Facility in Focus: Baptist Beaches Center for Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine
11/22/2016
Jacksonville Beach, FL – Approximately 6.7 million people in the United States are living with chronic wounds, and that number is expected to increase by 2% annually over the next decade.1 An aging population and increasing rates of diseases...
Jacksonville Beach, FL – Approximately 6.7 million people in the United States are living with chronic wounds, and that number is expected to increase by 2% annually over the next decade.1 An aging population and increasing rates of diseases...
Jacksonville Beach, FL –...
11/22/2016
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Let's be Frank
Let`s Be Frank: Collaborating With a Nutritional Expert is Crucial
11/16/2016
Frank Aviles Jr, PT, CWS, FACCWS, CLT
Frank Aviles Jr, PT, CWS, FACCWS, CLT...
“Let medicine be thy food and let food be thy medicine.” — Hippocrates
“Let medicine be thy food and let food be thy medicine.” — Hippocrates
“Let medicine be thy food and...
11/16/2016
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Business Briefs
Business Briefs: Providing an Overview of the New Quality Payment Program
11/16/2016
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 authors 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 authors do not represent, guarantee, or...
Information regarding coding,...
11/16/2016
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Insights

Commentary
Commentary: The 2016 Presidential Election: Change in the Air?
11/16/2016
Eric J. Lullove, DPM, CWS, FACCWS
Eric J. Lullove, DPM, CWS, FACCWS ...
The 2016 Presidential election is over. Donald Trump is the President-Elect of the United States of America after collecting more than 59 million votes and winning more than 26 states.  The electorate was angry and sent a message to the...
The 2016 Presidential election is over. Donald Trump is the President-Elect of the United States of America after collecting more than 59 million votes and winning more than 26 states.  The electorate was angry and sent a message to the...
The 2016 Presidential election...
11/16/2016
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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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