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Reimbursement

The Increasing Cost of Health Care: Do Sutures Require a Specialist?

March 12, 2015
By Michel H.E. Hermans, MD The 10 year old son of friends of mine incurred a gash in his right knee. After the injury, he was able to walk without pain in the leg (the gash did hurt, of course) but...

Weathering the Change: How Wound Care Providers Can Become Early "Adapters"

July 25, 2014
By Catherine T. Milne, APRN, MSN, BC-ANP, CWOCN There's a lot to be said about change, and much of what you say depends on which end of change you are on. Those of us who are early adopters of new ...

Weighing in on Reimbursement Changes to Medical Honey Dressings

July 9, 2015
By Michel H.E. Hermans, MD In the June 2015 issue of the Journal of Ostomy Wound Management, Bell et al. published an article in which they reacted to the recent decision by CMS (January 22, 2015) ...

What Code Do I Use? Q- Versus A-Codes and More

November 30, 2023
In this interview, Dr. Matthew Regulski, DPM, ABMSP, FFPM RCPS(Glasgow) discusses A- and Q-codes, how these codes differ, and more. ...

Why Wound Care Patients Pay the Price for HBOT Prior Authorization

September 10, 2015
By Thomas E. Serena MD, FACS, FACHM, FAPWCA During the 2010 presidential campaign, Sarah Palin, the former governor of Alaska, quipped during a debate that then presidential candidate Obama's healt...

Wound Care Perspectives: Looking Back and Forward at the Same Time

September 1, 2015
By Catherine T. Milne, APRN, MSN, BC-ANP, CWOCN-AP My grandmother knew wound care. "Soak it in salt water," she'd say. "Keep it open to air!" she would emphatically declare the next day. You never ...

Wound Healing with Platelet-Rich Plasma

February 20, 2020
What if I told you that there is a substance that we can isolate from your own blood that can help to heal the most difficult wound? I envision a scene out of "Star Trek" where Bones does a quick scan...
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