Payer coverage for wound care is shaped by trials that excluded your typical patient, by quality measures built for other specialties, and by policy decisions made on thin real-world evidence. A 60-year-old with a six-month-old wound and six comorbidities rarely...
A local coverage determination (LCD) is the regional Medicare policy that decides whether your debridement or skin substitute application gets paid, and it can differ depending on which Medicare Administrative Contractor (MAC) covers your state. For a wound care...
A “good” diabetic foot ulcer healing rate depends entirely on what you’re measuring, when you’re measuring it, and who your patients are. There is no single national benchmark that applies equally to a hospital-based wound center, a rural...
Picture the patient you saw last Tuesday. Sixty years old, diabetic foot ulcer that’s been open for six months, peripheral arterial disease, stage 3 chronic kidney disease, and a recent hospitalization for decompensated heart failure. You’ve already seen...
Wound care clinicians operate in one of medicine’s most demanding regulatory environments. You’re treating patients with complex, chronic wounds: diabetic foot ulcers that have persisted for months, venous leg ulcers complicated by lymphedema, pressure...
Chronic wounds don’t make headlines the way cancer or heart disease do. They don’t have awareness months or celebrity advocates. And yet, for the Medicare population and the providers who care for them, chronic wounds represent one of the most persistent...
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