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Volume 9 Issue 6 - August 2015

Column

Facility in Focus
Helping Patients ‘Navigate’ Healthcare’s Great Transition at Baptist Health System
09/04/2015

Joe Darrah

Joe Darrah
San Antonio — This country’s current healthcare transition from volume-based care to a system predicated on value and quality can be just as complicated to understand for the patients who stand to benefit from its changes as it has been...
San Antonio — This country’s current healthcare transition from volume-based care to a system predicated on value and quality can be just as complicated to understand for the patients who stand to benefit from its changes as it has been...
San Antonio — This country’s...
09/04/2015
Today's Wound Clinic
Spotlight
Product Spotlight: Grafix® Wound Allograft by Osiris Therapeutics Inc.
08/19/2015
Featured Product:  Grafix® Wound Allograft Product Launch/Release:  April 2011
Featured Product:  Grafix® Wound Allograft Product Launch/Release:  April 2011
Featured Product:  Grafix® Wound...
08/19/2015
Today's Wound Clinic
Business Briefs
CareMore Focuses on Treating the ‘Whole’ Senior Citizen
08/19/2015
Kathleen D. Schaum, MS
For the past few years, I have been doing my best to educate wound care professionals regarding the need to proactively develop wound care services as part of disease-management services that span the continuum of care    
For the past few years, I have been doing my best to educate wound care professionals regarding the need to proactively develop wound care services as part of disease-management services that span the continuum of care    
For the past few years, I have...
08/19/2015
Today's Wound Clinic
Letter from the Editor
The Multidisciplinary Wound Care Team
08/19/2015
Valerie Sullivan, PT, MS, CWS
We launched this publication in spring 2007. The first issue provided readers with articles discussing the “tools” needed to build a successful wound clinic and featured imagery of a construction worker complete with a tool belt on the cover....
We launched this publication in spring 2007. The first issue provided readers with articles discussing the “tools” needed to build a successful wound clinic and featured imagery of a construction worker complete with a tool belt on the cover....
We launched this publication in...
08/19/2015
Today's Wound Clinic
Effectively Staffing The Multidisciplinary Wound Clinic in 2015
08/20/2015
Melissa Johnson, PT, DPT, CWS
Melissa Johnson, PT, DPT, CWS
Wound care clinicians are witnessing firsthand the changing US healthcare arena and the reality of quality-based payment. With the increase in patients diagnosed with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and obesity there’s also been a dramatic...
Wound care clinicians are witnessing firsthand the changing US healthcare arena and the reality of quality-based payment. With the increase in patients diagnosed with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and obesity there’s also been a dramatic...
Wound care clinicians are...
08/20/2015
Today's Wound Clinic
Answers to Wound Care Documentation Case Study: Follow-Up Visits
08/19/2015
ANSWERS: Z09                 Encounter for follow-up examination after completed treatment for conditions other than malignancy E11.51            Type 2 Diabetes w/ peripheral angiopathy w/o gangrene (gangrene not present due to...
ANSWERS: Z09                 Encounter for follow-up examination after completed treatment for conditions other than malignancy E11.51            Type 2 Diabetes w/ peripheral angiopathy w/o gangrene (gangrene not present due to...
ANSWERS: Z09                ...
08/19/2015
Today's Wound Clinic
Quality Measures Resource Center: Update on eCQM Reporting & ICD-10 Assistance
08/19/2015
Editor’s Note: This news column runs in conjunction with our online Quality Measures Resource Center. For more quality measures-related materials, visit www.todayswoundclinic.com/articles/quality-measures-resource-center. MS Announces...
Editor’s Note: This news column runs in conjunction with our online Quality Measures Resource Center. For more quality measures-related materials, visit www.todayswoundclinic.com/articles/quality-measures-resource-center. MS Announces...
Editor’s Note: This news column...
08/19/2015
Today's Wound Clinic
News Update
TWC News Update
08/19/2015
Organogenesis Launches PuraPly Products  Organogenesis Inc., Canton, MA, has launched its new PuraPly™ wound management products, including the first purified collagen matrix with polyhexamethylene biguanide hydrochloride (PHMB)...
Organogenesis Launches PuraPly Products  Organogenesis Inc., Canton, MA, has launched its new PuraPly™ wound management products, including the first purified collagen matrix with polyhexamethylene biguanide hydrochloride (PHMB)...
Organogenesis Launches PuraPly...
08/19/2015
Today's Wound Clinic
Wound Care Documentation Case Study: Follow-Up Visits
08/19/2015
When reviewing this case study, refer to the instructions given in the case study published in the January/February 2015 issue of Today’s Wound Clinic (as well as the series of ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Coding Documentation Tips that were regularly...
When reviewing this case study, refer to the instructions given in the case study published in the January/February 2015 issue of Today’s Wound Clinic (as well as the series of ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Coding Documentation Tips that were regularly...
When reviewing this case study,...
08/19/2015
Today's Wound Clinic
Reimbursement Guidelines for the Multidisciplinary Wound Care Team: Focus on Therapy Services
08/19/2015
​​​​​​​Pamela G. Unger, PT, CWS, FCCWS
Collaborative wound care teams featuring providers of varying disciplines are becoming more popular throughout the industry. Knowing appropriate coding and reimbursement procedures comes with the territory.
Collaborative wound care teams featuring providers of varying disciplines are becoming more popular throughout the industry. Knowing appropriate coding and reimbursement procedures comes with the territory.
Collaborative wound care teams...
08/19/2015
Today's Wound Clinic

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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
Today's Wound Clinic
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
Today's Wound Clinic
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
Today's Wound Clinic
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
Today's Wound Clinic
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
Today's Wound Clinic
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
Today's Wound Clinic

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