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Evaluation & Management for Office, Outpatient, and Home Visits
12/16/2022
Kathleen D. Schaum, MS
Because wound/ulcer management physicians and QHPs perform most of their E/M service work in their offices, hospital owned outpatient wound/ulcer management PBDs, and in patients’ homes, this author answers questions about reporting E/M...
Because wound/ulcer management physicians and QHPs perform most of their E/M service work in their offices, hospital owned outpatient wound/ulcer management PBDs, and in patients’ homes, this author answers questions about reporting E/M...
Because wound/ulcer management...
12/16/2022
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Business Briefs
Are You Prepared to Implement the 2023 CTP Final Rules?
11/28/2022
Kathleen D. Schaum, MS
Wound/ulcer management physicians, QHPs, and PBDs have been asking exactly what the rules mean to the purchase of, and application of, CTPs beginning January 1, 2023. This author answers the most frequently asked questions in hopes that they...
Wound/ulcer management physicians, QHPs, and PBDs have been asking exactly what the rules mean to the purchase of, and application of, CTPs beginning January 1, 2023. This author answers the most frequently asked questions in hopes that they...
Wound/ulcer management...
11/28/2022
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Business Briefs
Medical Necessity: The “Magic Bullet” to Medicare Coverage
10/15/2022
Kathleen D. Schaum, MS
If the medical necessity “why” is missing or non-convincing, now is the time to use the “magic bullet” to coverage by taking the steps required to improve your written and/or EHR documentation.
If the medical necessity “why” is missing or non-convincing, now is the time to use the “magic bullet” to coverage by taking the steps required to improve your written and/or EHR documentation.
If the medical necessity “why”...
10/15/2022
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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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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
Mid-Year Reimbursement Updates for CTPs (Skin Substitutes) and PRP
07/28/2022
Kathleen D. Schaum, MS
Coding, payment, and coverage changes never stop! This article should be a reminder that wound/ulcer management professionals must continue to be vigilant about reimbursement changes throughout the year.
Coding, payment, and coverage changes never stop! This article should be a reminder that wound/ulcer management professionals must continue to be vigilant about reimbursement changes throughout the year.
Coding, payment, and coverage...
07/28/2022
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Business Briefs
It’s Time to Submit Your Claim: Did You Report the Correct Place of Service Code?
06/20/2022
Kathleen D. Schaum, MS
Many wound/ulcer management stakeholders act like the POS codes are a mystery. Nothing is further from the truth.
Many wound/ulcer management stakeholders act like the POS codes are a mystery. Nothing is further from the truth.
Many wound/ulcer management...
06/20/2022
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Why Is Debridement Coding Such a Mystery?
05/20/2022
Kathleen D. Schaum, MS
Take this self-test to assess your debridement coding knowledge. If your coding practices do not align with the debridement coding and coverage guidelines, immediately take the appropriate steps to make the necessary corrections.
Take this self-test to assess your debridement coding knowledge. If your coding practices do not align with the debridement coding and coverage guidelines, immediately take the appropriate steps to make the necessary corrections.
Take this self-test to assess...
05/20/2022
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Business Briefs
Alphabet Soup of Codes for CTPs [Skin Substitutes] for Skin Wounds
04/15/2022
Kathleen D. Schaum, MS
Because readers have submitted many questions about the diverse types of HCPCS codes recently assigned to cellular- and/or tissue-based products (CTPs) for skin wounds, this article will address the “who?” and “what?” Let us review the recent...
Because readers have submitted many questions about the diverse types of HCPCS codes recently assigned to cellular- and/or tissue-based products (CTPs) for skin wounds, this article will address the “who?” and “what?” Let us review the recent...
Because readers have submitted...
04/15/2022
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Business Briefs
Have You Correctly Added Imaging Study Codes to Your Charging System?
03/02/2022
Kathleen D. Schaum, MS
Review the misperceptions, correct codes, and the 2022 Medicare payment for imaging study technologies that have proven to be extremely useful.
Review the misperceptions, correct codes, and the 2022 Medicare payment for imaging study technologies that have proven to be extremely useful.
Review the misperceptions,...
03/02/2022
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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
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
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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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