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Volume 3 Issue 6 - November/December 2009

Profile
Wound Care Strategies, Inc. Profile
12/16/2009
Staff
Staff
In the Nov/Dec issue of Today's Wound Clinic, we erroneously misnamed the President and Founder of Wound Care Strategies, Inc. within its Company Profile. Our editors retract this error in its entirety. Cathy Thomas Hess is still, and has...
In the Nov/Dec issue of Today's Wound Clinic, we erroneously misnamed the President and Founder of Wound Care Strategies, Inc. within its Company Profile. Our editors retract this error in its entirety. Cathy Thomas Hess is still, and has...
In the Nov/Dec issue of Today's...
12/16/2009
Today's Wound Clinic
Mediating Anxiety, Fear, and Pain in the Wound Clinic Setting
12/14/2009
Wound clinics often manage care for individuals who suffer from anxiety-related stress. For those individuals, the experience of having a wound often transcends the wound clinic and affects their day-to-day life. It is common for individuals...
Wound clinics often manage care for individuals who suffer from anxiety-related stress. For those individuals, the experience of having a wound often transcends the wound clinic and affects their day-to-day life. It is common for individuals...
Wound clinics often manage care...
12/14/2009
Today's Wound Clinic
It’s Hollywood Baby: Simulation Technology and Virtual Environments in Healthcare and Continuing Education
12/14/2009
Continuing education can be a blast! While we healthcare professionals often look forward to a weekend “away” or even a week if we can squeeze it in for a continuing education conference or symposium, the excitement usually revolves around...
Continuing education can be a blast! While we healthcare professionals often look forward to a weekend “away” or even a week if we can squeeze it in for a continuing education conference or symposium, the excitement usually revolves around...
Continuing education can be a...
12/14/2009
Today's Wound Clinic
A Sneak Peek: Looking Inside Some Of The Companies In The Industry
12/01/2009
Net Health Systems, Inc. Jim Smith, Director of Marketing, provided Today’s Wound Clinic with information highlighting Net Health Systems, Inc. Website: www.woundexpert.com Phone: (800) 411-6281, ext.70 Contact: Michael Bursich, Director of...
Net Health Systems, Inc. Jim Smith, Director of Marketing, provided Today’s Wound Clinic with information highlighting Net Health Systems, Inc. Website: www.woundexpert.com Phone: (800) 411-6281, ext.70 Contact: Michael Bursich, Director of...
Net Health Systems, Inc. Jim...
12/01/2009
Today's Wound Clinic

Column

Business Briefs
Business Briefs: Final 2010 Medicare Policy: Supervision in HOPDs
12/14/2009
Disclaimer: 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 author do not represent,...
Disclaimer: 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 author do not represent,...
Disclaimer: Information...
12/14/2009
Today's Wound Clinic
Letter from the Editor
From the Editor: Time is the Greatest Innovator
12/01/2009
  I finally did it. I set up a Twitter account and actually “tweeted” about wound care. I will save for the moment the challenge of saying anything useful in 140 characters (the equivalent of about two sentences). While I may be reasonably...
  I finally did it. I set up a Twitter account and actually “tweeted” about wound care. I will save for the moment the challenge of saying anything useful in 140 characters (the equivalent of about two sentences). While I may be reasonably...
  I finally did it. I set up a...
12/01/2009
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Today's Wound Clinic

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

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