Reimbursement

By Dr. Mark Hinkes, DPM I recently read a synopsis about how Obamacare will affect the type of health care services that will be available in the marketplace and the age groups that will be helped ...

By Samantha Kuplicki, MSN, APRN-CNS, AGCNS-BC, CWS, CWCN, CFCN Ordering wound care dressing supplies can prove to be a frustrating task for many providers and clinicians. Unfortunately, I have enco...

by Thomas E. Serena MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA Lawrence Mills introduced the concept of Value Analysis to the manufacturing industry a half century ago. The basic idea entails analyzing the function a...

By Samantha Kuplicki, MSN, APRN-CNS, AGCNS-BC, CWS, CWCN, CFCN In the last installment of my blog, we discussed a brief overview of billing for wound care products and dressings (durable medical eq...

By Paula Erwin-Toth MSN, RN, CWOCN, CNS As we say goodbye to 2013 and usher in 2014, most of us reflect on the past and plan for the future. What does 2014 mean when we look ahead to wound care? Th...

With approximately 68,000 codes (nearly five times the number of codes as ICD-9), the ICD-10 system can seem daunting. In addition to an expansion in the number of codes, with flexibility for new code...

By Mary Ellen Posthauer RDN, CD, LD, FAND The Improving Medicare Post-Acute Care Transformation Act of 2014 (IMPACT) amends Title XVIII of the Social Security Act by adding a new section –Standardi...

Cellular and/or tissue-based products: Engineered wound dressing products created to promote biological repair or regeneration of wound tissue by providing signaling, structural, or cellular elements ...

By Samantha Kuplicki, MSN, APRN-CNS, AGCNS-BC, CWS, CWCN, CFCN It is becoming increasingly difficult to be involved in wound care at any level without having a working knowledge of the intricacies...