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Volume 10 Issue 6 - June 2016

News

News
Product News
06/15/2016
Wound Dressing Wins Innovation Award
Wound Dressing Wins Innovation Award
Wound Dressing Wins Innovation...
06/15/2016
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News
Wound Clinic News & Notes
06/13/2016
Children’s Hospital Earns Excellence Award For Skin Safety Members of the Pressure Ulcer Prevention (PUP) team at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, have been awarded the fifth annual 3M Award for Excellence in Skin Safety for...
Children’s Hospital Earns Excellence Award For Skin Safety Members of the Pressure Ulcer Prevention (PUP) team at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, have been awarded the fifth annual 3M Award for Excellence in Skin Safety for...
Children’s Hospital Earns...
06/13/2016
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Feature

Infographic
Industry Insider
06/13/2016
Healogics Names New Chief Nursing Officer Healogics Inc., Jacksonville, FL, has announced Deborah Leblanc, BSN, RN, BSN, MM, NEA-BC, has been hired as chief nursing officer (CNO). “I’m excited to have Deborah Leblanc join our leadership...
Healogics Names New Chief Nursing Officer Healogics Inc., Jacksonville, FL, has announced Deborah Leblanc, BSN, RN, BSN, MM, NEA-BC, has been hired as chief nursing officer (CNO). “I’m excited to have Deborah Leblanc join our leadership...
Healogics Names New Chief...
06/13/2016
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Column

Business Briefs
Business Briefs: Are You Reporting the Correct Outpatient Site of Care?
06/13/2016
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,...
06/13/2016
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Letter from the Editor
Pressure Ulcer Vs. 'Injury'
06/13/2016
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
The National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (NPUAP) recently met in Chicago for the 2016 Staging Consensus Conference. In the days following the meeting, the organization announced it will, effective immediately, use “pressure injury” to...
The National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel (NPUAP) recently met in Chicago for the 2016 Staging Consensus Conference. In the days following the meeting, the organization announced it will, effective immediately, use “pressure injury” to...
The National Pressure Ulcer...
06/13/2016
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HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance
HIPAA Privacy & Security: How Can Providers Legally Share Children’s PHI?
06/13/2016
Roger Shindell, MS, CHPS
Roger Shindell, MS, CHPS
This article discusses how wound care clinicians should approach requests for info related to minors.
This article discusses how wound care clinicians should approach requests for info related to minors.
This article discusses how wound...
06/13/2016
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Preventing Limb Loss Among Aging Patients Living With Diabetes & DFUs
06/13/2016
Jeffrey Robbins, DPM
Jeffrey Robbins, DPM
The prevalence of foot ulcers among aging diabetes patients is not expected to improve any time soon. What can wound care providers in the outpatient clinic do to help their patients avoid limb loss?  
The prevalence of foot ulcers among aging diabetes patients is not expected to improve any time soon. What can wound care providers in the outpatient clinic do to help their patients avoid limb loss?  
The prevalence of foot ulcers...
06/13/2016
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Clinical Practice Recommendations for Management of the Diabetic Foot in the Wound Clinic
06/13/2016
Joseph L. Mills, Sr., MD
Joseph L. Mills, Sr., MD
DFUs remain the precursors to amputation, and efforts among healthcare providers must focus on prevention and expeditious treatment if amputation rates are to be reduced.  
DFUs remain the precursors to amputation, and efforts among healthcare providers must focus on prevention and expeditious treatment if amputation rates are to be reduced.  
DFUs remain the precursors to...
06/13/2016
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Adopting An Integrated Practice Model of Care for Critical Limb Ischemia & Limb Preservation in the Outpatient Wound Clinic
06/13/2016
Desmond Bell, DPM, CWS
Desmond Bell, DPM, CWS
Those clinicians who successfully develop the IPU approach within their clinics will be rewarded as reimbursement shifts to the value-based agenda.
Those clinicians who successfully develop the IPU approach within their clinics will be rewarded as reimbursement shifts to the value-based agenda.
Those clinicians who...
06/13/2016
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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...
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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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