Contact
searchSearch
HMP Global

Advertisement

ADVERTISEMENT

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Wound Clinic Case Report: Role of HBOT in Delayed Presentation of Frostbite After Freon Exposure
12/13/2016

Anil S. Matta, MD, MPH; Kelly Browning, RN, CWS; Robin McCalister, LPN, CHT; & Frank Aviles Jr, PT, CWS, CLT

Anil S. Matta, MD, MPH; Kelly Brownin...
Freon gas is a halogenated hydrofluorocarbon derivative widely used in refrigeration and air conditioning, and its contact with skin may cause serious burns. This article presents a case of a 58-year-old male who presented to the wound...
Freon gas is a halogenated hydrofluorocarbon derivative widely used in refrigeration and air conditioning, and its contact with skin may cause serious burns. This article presents a case of a 58-year-old male who presented to the wound...
Freon gas is a halogenated...
12/13/2016
Today's Wound Clinic
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Nutritional Assessment & Prior Authorization of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
11/16/2016
Helen B. Gelly, MD, FACCWS, UHM/ABPM, FUHM
The definition of a “nutritional assessment” within the national coverage determination for HBOT is vague. Although an assessment of nutritional status should be routinely performed on all patients seen in the outpatient wound clinic, the...
The definition of a “nutritional assessment” within the national coverage determination for HBOT is vague. Although an assessment of nutritional status should be routinely performed on all patients seen in the outpatient wound clinic, the...
The definition of a “nutritional...
11/16/2016
Today's Wound Clinic

Advertisement

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Understanding & Responding to Prepayment Reviews for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
12/15/2015
Helen B. Gelly, MD, FACCWS, UHM/ABPM, FUHM
Appropriate response to records requests requires knowledge of the prepayment review process. This article offers guidance to HBOT providers in wound care.
Appropriate response to records requests requires knowledge of the prepayment review process. This article offers guidance to HBOT providers in wound care.
Appropriate response to records...
12/15/2015
Today's Wound Clinic
HBOT
Prior Authorization & Nonemergent HBOT: Update for Providers in Outpatient Wound Care
10/20/2015

Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM, & Helen Gelly, MD, FACCWS, UHM/ABPM, FUHM

Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUH...
CMS officials believe they can reduce HBOT spending while maintaining or improving quality of care by ensuring services are provided in compliance with Medicare coverage and payment rules before the claims are paid. This article provides an...
CMS officials believe they can reduce HBOT spending while maintaining or improving quality of care by ensuring services are provided in compliance with Medicare coverage and payment rules before the claims are paid. This article provides an...
CMS officials believe they can...
10/20/2015
Today's Wound Clinic
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Lessons to Learn From Federal Convictions of HBOT Fraud
03/18/2015

Phi-Nga Jeannie Le, MD

Phi-Nga Jeannie Le, MD
This article discusses types of fraud within hyperbaric facilities while citing cases of actual legal discipline. 
This article discusses types of fraud within hyperbaric facilities while citing cases of actual legal discipline. 
This article discusses types of...
03/18/2015
Today's Wound Clinic

Advertisement

Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Proper Monitoring & Maintaining of Gas-Detection Systems in the HBOT Environment
10/12/2014

John V. Carvalho III

John V. Carvalho III
Having a gas detector installed in your wound clinic is not enough. When’s the last time you tested its effectiveness?
Having a gas detector installed in your wound clinic is not enough. When’s the last time you tested its effectiveness?
Having a gas detector installed...
10/12/2014
Today's Wound Clinic
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Utilizing Indocyanine Green Wound Imaging In the Management of Hyperbaric Therapy
10/12/2014

Stephen D. Guthrie, PhD, MD & Barbara R. Guthrie, MD

Stephen D. Guthrie, PhD, MD & Bar...
This article will discuss the application of fluorescence vascular angiography in the outpatient wound/HBOT clinic and depict the format and nature of the data immediately available to the clinician.
This article will discuss the application of fluorescence vascular angiography in the outpatient wound/HBOT clinic and depict the format and nature of the data immediately available to the clinician.
This article will discuss the...
10/12/2014
Today's Wound Clinic
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in Wound Care: A Service Under True Pressure
10/12/2014
Helen B. Gelly, MD, FACCWS, UHM/ABPM, FUHM
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM
The clock may be ticking on the administration of HBOT as it’s known today due to various threats - from compliance to credentialing.
The clock may be ticking on the administration of HBOT as it’s known today due to various threats - from compliance to credentialing.
The clock may be ticking on the...
10/12/2014
Today's Wound Clinic

Advertisement

Business Briefs
HBOT Documentation Paramount, Especially With Prior Authorization Looming
10/12/2014
Kathleen D. Schaum, MS
The wound care industry’s general reluctance to not thoroughly implement two processes related to reimbursement as it pertains to hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) has resulted in unintended consequences.
The wound care industry’s general reluctance to not thoroughly implement two processes related to reimbursement as it pertains to hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) has resulted in unintended consequences.
The wound care industry’s...
10/12/2014
Today's Wound Clinic
Commentary
Guest Editorial: Assessing the Need for Wound Care Providers To Address the ‘Survival’ of 24/7 Emergency HBOT
10/12/2014

William T. Kepper, MD

William T. Kepper, MD
This commentary reflects, in part, on a panel discussion of the Gulf Coast Chapter of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society to address the issue of available HBOT facilities being equipped to provide emergent treatment 24/7.
This commentary reflects, in part, on a panel discussion of the Gulf Coast Chapter of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society to address the issue of available HBOT facilities being equipped to provide emergent treatment 24/7.
This commentary reflects, in...
10/12/2014
Today's Wound Clinic

Advertisement

Subscribe and never miss an article!

Today's Wound Clinic Newsletter

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
Today's Wound Clinic

Advertisement

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

Advertisement

Specialties

Events

Year Round Education

HMP Global Products

HMP Education Logo
HMP Omnimedia Logo
HMP Europe Logo
© 2024 HMP Global. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy Terms of Use