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Volume 11 Issue 10 - October 2017

Feature
5 Tips for Opening Your New Wound Clinic
10/27/2017
Members of the Today’s Wound Clinic advisory board share some of their strategies for setting up your wound clinic for success from Day 1. Click here.   
Members of the Today’s Wound Clinic advisory board share some of their strategies for setting up your wound clinic for success from Day 1. Click here.   
Members of the Today’s Wound...
10/27/2017
Today's Wound Clinic
Industry Insider News
10/05/2017
Organogenesis Names New CCO, COO Organogenesis Inc., a commercial leader in the field of regenerative medicine with a portfolio of advanced and next-generation bioactive and acellular biomaterials products in the advanced wound care and...
Organogenesis Names New CCO, COO Organogenesis Inc., a commercial leader in the field of regenerative medicine with a portfolio of advanced and next-generation bioactive and acellular biomaterials products in the advanced wound care and...
Organogenesis Names New CCO, COO...
10/05/2017
Today's Wound Clinic
Industry Insider
Value Analysis in the Wound Clinic: A Firsthand Account
10/05/2017
In this exclusive interview, Today’s Wound Clinic discusses the value analysis team process with Lance Ellis, territory manager at Tissue Regenix, San Antonio, TX.  
In this exclusive interview, Today’s Wound Clinic discusses the value analysis team process with Lance Ellis, territory manager at Tissue Regenix, San Antonio, TX.  
In this exclusive interview,...
10/05/2017
Today's Wound Clinic
Feature
Opening Your New Clinic: A Comprehensive Checklist
10/05/2017

Information for this guide was collected and crafted by the following authors: Caroline Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS; Toni Turner, RCP, CHT, CWS; Kathleen D. Schaum, MS; Valerie Sullivan, PT, MS, CWS; Donna J. Cartwright, MPA, RHIA, CCS, RAC, FAHIMA; M. Darlene Carey, MBA; Susie Seaman, NP, MSN, CWOCN; Cathy Thomas Hess, BSN, RN, CWOCN; Christopher A. Morrison, MD, FACHM, FCCWS; Rex A. McCarty, MBA, CHT; and Joe Darrah, managing editor of TWC

Information for this guide was collec...
Taking your wound clinic from concept, to construction, to completion, to compliance is an arduous process.  With this checklist, Today’s Wound Clinic provides to-be wound clinic directors with an overview of the many parameters that must be...
Taking your wound clinic from concept, to construction, to completion, to compliance is an arduous process.  With this checklist, Today’s Wound Clinic provides to-be wound clinic directors with an overview of the many parameters that must be...
Taking your wound clinic from...
10/05/2017
Today's Wound Clinic

Insights

Product Spotlight
Product News
10/05/2017
New Test Released to Help Clinicians Rapidly Determine Course of Therapy for Suspected Wound Infections
New Test Released to Help Clinicians Rapidly Determine Course of Therapy for Suspected Wound Infections
New Test Released to Help...
10/05/2017
Today's Wound Clinic

News

News
CMS News Center
10/05/2017
CMS Offering QRUR Webcast Oct. 19 Officials with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will provide a live webinar Oct. 19 that will give an overview of the annual Quality and Resource Use Reports (QRURs) made available to all...
CMS Offering QRUR Webcast Oct. 19 Officials with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will provide a live webinar Oct. 19 that will give an overview of the annual Quality and Resource Use Reports (QRURs) made available to all...
CMS Offering QRUR Webcast Oct....
10/05/2017
Today's Wound Clinic

Column

Patient Handouts
Lymphedema
10/05/2017
Pass along this informative clinical guide to your patients. 
Pass along this informative clinical guide to your patients. 
Pass along this informative...
10/05/2017
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Patient Handouts
Lymphedema
10/05/2017
Pass along this informative clinical guide to your patients. 
Pass along this informative clinical guide to your patients. 
Pass along this informative...
10/05/2017
Today's Wound Clinic
Letter from the Editor
My Tribute to Kathleen D. Schaum, MS
10/05/2017
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
The marching orders that I had received from my fellow editorial board member Kathleen D. Schaum, MS, prior to our post-conference seminar some years ago were, well, completely indicative of her meticulous approach to education. “What I’d...
The marching orders that I had received from my fellow editorial board member Kathleen D. Schaum, MS, prior to our post-conference seminar some years ago were, well, completely indicative of her meticulous approach to education. “What I’d...
The marching orders that I had...
10/05/2017
Today's Wound Clinic

Department

Editorial Board & Staff News
TWC Editorial Board & Staff News
10/05/2017
Today’s Wound Clinic Appoints New Advisory Board Members Effective Oct. 1, Today’s Wound Clinic (TWC) journal is proud to announce the appointment of four new members to our editorial advisory board: Stephen G. Bergquist, MD, CWSP; Melodie...
Today’s Wound Clinic Appoints New Advisory Board Members Effective Oct. 1, Today’s Wound Clinic (TWC) journal is proud to announce the appointment of four new members to our editorial advisory board: Stephen G. Bergquist, MD, CWSP; Melodie...
Today’s Wound Clinic Appoints...
10/05/2017
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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
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
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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
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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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
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
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