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Volume 12 Issue 4 - April 2018

Column

Facility in Focus
Providing the Algorithm for Wound & Podiatric Care at Ocean County Foot & Ankle Surgical Associates
04/09/2018
Joe Darrah
Toms River, NJ —As the longest highway in the state of New Jersey, the Garden State Parkway is truly a destination route despite its being defined as a “limited access” thruway. When traveling north from the southernmost point, the highway...
Toms River, NJ —As the longest highway in the state of New Jersey, the Garden State Parkway is truly a destination route despite its being defined as a “limited access” thruway. When traveling north from the southernmost point, the highway...
Toms River, NJ —As the longest...
04/09/2018
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Business Briefs
Determining What’s Broken With Your Wound Clinic Reimbursement & Implementing Required Fixes
04/05/2018
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 information accuracy. However, HMP and the author do not represent, guarantee, or warranty that coding,...
Information regarding coding, coverage, and payment is provided as a service to our readers. Every effort has been made to ensure information accuracy. However, HMP and the author do not represent, guarantee, or warranty that coding,...
Information regarding coding,...
04/05/2018
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Patient Handouts
Foot Neuropathy & Other Common Problems
04/05/2018
Today’s Wound Clinic offers our readers this informative clinical guide to review and pass along to their patients for purposes of assisting in their education.  
Today’s Wound Clinic offers our readers this informative clinical guide to review and pass along to their patients for purposes of assisting in their education.  
Today’s Wound Clinic offers our...
04/05/2018
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Legal Counsel
Advancing Regenerative Medicine: FDA Implementation of 21st Century Cures Act
04/05/2018

Naomi J.L. Halpern & James R. Ravitz

Naomi J.L. Halpern & James R. Rav...
The treatment of the skyrocketing number of patients in the United States living with chronic wounds represents an enormous public health challenge, but has also created significant incentives for the development of advanced wound care...
The treatment of the skyrocketing number of patients in the United States living with chronic wounds represents an enormous public health challenge, but has also created significant incentives for the development of advanced wound care...
The treatment of the...
04/05/2018
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HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance
Your Files Have Been Encrypted: The Growing Threat of Ransomware
04/05/2018
Lorna Hecker, PhD, CHPS
Roger Shindell, MS, CHPS, CISA, CIPM
Recently, the popular TV show Grey’s Anatomy aired an episode where the hospital’s electronic health record was overtaken by ransomware. Patient health was jeopardized when providers could not access patients’ health information, and the...
Recently, the popular TV show Grey’s Anatomy aired an episode where the hospital’s electronic health record was overtaken by ransomware. Patient health was jeopardized when providers could not access patients’ health information, and the...
Recently, the popular TV show...
04/05/2018
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From the Editor
Making the 'Right Thing' the 'Easy Thing' in Wound Care
04/04/2018
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
Have you ever heard of a surgeon offering a warranty on a procedure? I can hardly get a warranty on a home appliance repair. A warranty is not the legal term for what Geisinger offers patients after a hip replacement, but that is effectively...
Have you ever heard of a surgeon offering a warranty on a procedure? I can hardly get a warranty on a home appliance repair. A warranty is not the legal term for what Geisinger offers patients after a hip replacement, but that is effectively...
Have you ever heard of a surgeon...
04/04/2018
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Insights

Commentary
Wound Care Supplier Woes: Help Us Help You!
04/05/2018

Brett Carroll, CEO, Preston Wound Care

Brett Carroll, CEO, Preston Wound Car...
Wound dressings and supplies — they’re usually the very last thing that any clinicians and/or providers think about when it comes to the plan of care for patients being managed for skin breakdown. Well, it’s just the opposite for the medical...
Wound dressings and supplies — they’re usually the very last thing that any clinicians and/or providers think about when it comes to the plan of care for patients being managed for skin breakdown. Well, it’s just the opposite for the medical...
Wound dressings and supplies —...
04/05/2018
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From the Editor
Making the 'Right Thing' the 'Easy Thing' in Wound Care
04/04/2018
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
Have you ever heard of a surgeon offering a warranty on a procedure? I can hardly get a warranty on a home appliance repair. A warranty is not the legal term for what Geisinger offers patients after a hip replacement, but that is effectively...
Have you ever heard of a surgeon offering a warranty on a procedure? I can hardly get a warranty on a home appliance repair. A warranty is not the legal term for what Geisinger offers patients after a hip replacement, but that is effectively...
Have you ever heard of a surgeon...
04/04/2018
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News

News
CMS News Center
04/05/2018
CMS Lowers Prescription Drug Costs for Medicare Beneficiaries  The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently finalized polices for Medicare health and drug plans for 2019 that will save Medicare beneficiaries money on...
CMS Lowers Prescription Drug Costs for Medicare Beneficiaries  The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently finalized polices for Medicare health and drug plans for 2019 that will save Medicare beneficiaries money on...
CMS Lowers Prescription Drug...
04/05/2018
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Industry Insider News
04/04/2018
Product Trial Confirms Reduction in Pressure Injuries
Product Trial Confirms Reduction in Pressure Injuries
Product Trial Confirms Reduction...
04/04/2018
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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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