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Does Your Wound Care PBD Correctly Charge for Inpatient Services?
12/06/2017
Valerie A. Rinkle, MPA
Editor’s Note: Kathleen D. Schaum, MS, author of Business Briefs, will be on extended vacation through early 2018. While she’s away, we will feature guest authors in this column space. Ms. Schaum will return to her column beginning with the...
Editor’s Note: Kathleen D. Schaum, MS, author of Business Briefs, will be on extended vacation through early 2018. While she’s away, we will feature guest authors in this column space. Ms. Schaum will return to her column beginning with the...
Editor’s Note: Kathleen D....
12/06/2017
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Medicare Coverage & Payment of Outpatient Wound Care Supplies
11/07/2017
Valerie A. Rinkle, MPA
Editor’s Note: Kathleen D. Schaum, MS, author of Business Briefs, will be on extended vacation prior to the 2017 holiday season. While she’s away, we will feature guest authors in this column space. Ms. Schaum will return to her column...
Editor’s Note: Kathleen D. Schaum, MS, author of Business Briefs, will be on extended vacation prior to the 2017 holiday season. While she’s away, we will feature guest authors in this column space. Ms. Schaum will return to her column...
Editor’s Note: Kathleen D....
11/07/2017
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Business Briefs
Reimbursement Tips for Launching Your New Wound Care Clinic
10/05/2017
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 Communications and the author do not represent, guarantee, or warranty that...
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 Communications and the author do not represent, guarantee, or warranty that...
Information regarding coding,...
10/05/2017
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Business Briefs
New Medicare Cards: What, Why, When, & How to Prepare
09/06/2017
Kathleen D. Schaum, MS
Believe it or not, all Medicare beneficiaries will be receiving new Medicare identification cards. Yes, more than 57.7 million Americans will receive a new card! The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will randomly assign all...
Believe it or not, all Medicare beneficiaries will be receiving new Medicare identification cards. Yes, more than 57.7 million Americans will receive a new card! The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will randomly assign all...
Believe it or not, all Medicare...
09/06/2017
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Working in a Wound Care Provider-Based Department: The Medical Director’s Perspective
08/08/2017
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 Communications and the author do not represent, guarantee, or warranty that...
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 Communications and the author do not represent, guarantee, or warranty that...
Information regarding coding,...
08/08/2017
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Business Briefs
Test Your Knowledge of Debridement Coding, Coverage, & Payment
07/03/2017
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 Communications and the author do not represent, guarantee, or warranty that...
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 Communications and the author do not represent, guarantee, or warranty that...
Information regarding coding,...
07/03/2017
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Business Briefs
Postoperative Care Reporting Required During Global Surgical Period
06/08/2017
Kathleen D. Schaum, MS
Physicians and other professionals on staff in provider-based departments (PBDs), Medicare’s new label for what we previously referred to as hospital outpatient departments, are often inclined to ask this author about providing postoperative...
Physicians and other professionals on staff in provider-based departments (PBDs), Medicare’s new label for what we previously referred to as hospital outpatient departments, are often inclined to ask this author about providing postoperative...
Physicians and other...
06/08/2017
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Direct Supervision in the Provider-Based Department: What’s Required?
05/02/2017
Kathleen D. Schaum, MS
Seventeen years ago, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented the Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) for hospital-based outpatient departments (HOPDs) such as the emergency department (ED) and the HOPD...
Seventeen years ago, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented the Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) for hospital-based outpatient departments (HOPDs) such as the emergency department (ED) and the HOPD...
Seventeen years ago, the Centers...
05/02/2017
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Physicians & Other Qualified Healthcare Professionals Are Questioning Medicare Contractors’ Coverage of CTPs
03/31/2017
Kathleen D. Schaum, MS
Some wound care physicians and other qualified healthcare professionals (QHPs) are old enough to remember when only three or four cellular and/or tissue-based products (CTPs) for skin wounds were available. Still, many younger individuals are...
Some wound care physicians and other qualified healthcare professionals (QHPs) are old enough to remember when only three or four cellular and/or tissue-based products (CTPs) for skin wounds were available. Still, many younger individuals are...
Some wound care physicians and...
03/31/2017
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Coordination of Care in Volume-Based & Value-Based Payment Systems
03/08/2017
Kathleen D. Schaum, MS
In this special edition of Today’s Wound Clinic focusing on reimbursement, we are emphasizing the need for wound care professionals and hospital-based outpatient departments (HOPDs) to meet the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s “Triple...
In this special edition of Today’s Wound Clinic focusing on reimbursement, we are emphasizing the need for wound care professionals and hospital-based outpatient departments (HOPDs) to meet the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s “Triple...
In this special edition of...
03/08/2017
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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
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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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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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