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Volume 10 Issue 5 - May 2016

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Wound Clinic News and Notes
05/10/2016
Maryland Wound Healing Center Appoints New Medical Director Adam M. Myers, DPM, has been named the new medical director at Union Hospital Wound Healing Center (Elkton, MD).  Dr. Myers, a board-certified podiatrist specializing in wound...
Maryland Wound Healing Center Appoints New Medical Director Adam M. Myers, DPM, has been named the new medical director at Union Hospital Wound Healing Center (Elkton, MD).  Dr. Myers, a board-certified podiatrist specializing in wound...
Maryland Wound Healing Center...
05/10/2016
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Industry Insider
05/10/2016
Integra to Launch DFU Matrix Integra LifeSciences (Plainsboro, NJ), a global medical technology company, has announced the prepared launch of its Omnigraft™ Dermal Regeneration Matrix slated for June, pending receipt of final U.S. Food and...
Integra to Launch DFU Matrix Integra LifeSciences (Plainsboro, NJ), a global medical technology company, has announced the prepared launch of its Omnigraft™ Dermal Regeneration Matrix slated for June, pending receipt of final U.S. Food and...
Integra to Launch DFU...
05/10/2016
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Column

Business Briefs
Business Briefs: Smoking Cessation Counseling: Coding, Payment, & Coverage
05/10/2016
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,...
05/10/2016
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From The Editor
05/10/2016
He was one of those patients who reminds you of why we’ve dedicated our careers to wound care. Kevin was from the beautiful, historic city of Natchitoches, LA. It was seven years ago when his good friends had driven him nearly five hours to...
He was one of those patients who reminds you of why we’ve dedicated our careers to wound care. Kevin was from the beautiful, historic city of Natchitoches, LA. It was seven years ago when his good friends had driven him nearly five hours to...
He was one of those patients who...
05/10/2016
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Acceleration of Wound Healing Through Utilization of Fish Skin Containing Omega-3 Fatty Acids
05/10/2016
Introduction
Introduction
Introduction
05/10/2016
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Wound Care Clinician’s Guide to Evaluation & Management of Pediatric SSTI in the Outpatient Clinic
05/10/2016
Infection risks among children are common based on age and exposure. Optimal care of skin and soft tissue infection requires recognition of different variants as well as prompt re-evaluation. 
Infection risks among children are common based on age and exposure. Optimal care of skin and soft tissue infection requires recognition of different variants as well as prompt re-evaluation. 
Infection risks among children...
05/10/2016
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Examining the Wound Clinic’s Role in Pre- & Post-Hospitalized Pediatric Burn Care Patients
05/09/2016
Due to the prevalence of and challenges associated with caring for young patients requiring burn treatment, wound care clinicians must adhere to particular care standards.
Due to the prevalence of and challenges associated with caring for young patients requiring burn treatment, wound care clinicians must adhere to particular care standards.
Due to the prevalence of and...
05/09/2016
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Appropriate Treatment of Pediatric Pressure Ulcers Among The Special Needs Population in the Outpatient Clinic: An Introduction
05/09/2016
Caring for the medically fragile is complex. This article provides an overview on treatment strategies to consider for young patients living with wounds and special needs.
Caring for the medically fragile is complex. This article provides an overview on treatment strategies to consider for young patients living with wounds and special needs.
Caring for the medically fragile...
05/09/2016
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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
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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