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WoundReference Set to Deliver Breakthrough Investor Presentation at Venture Summit West
SILICON VALLEY – WoundReference has recently become one of only 150 selected companies worldwide to secure a coveted presentation slot at the prestigious 11th a...
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WoundReference wins the Journal of Wound Care Award 2024 for Innovation in Wound Care
The JWC AwardsFrom changing their approach, to employing new systems in order to optimize wound care, the Innovation in Wound Care Award is open to all people i...
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MIPS in Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine - Improvement Activities
Quality
MIPS in Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine - Improvement Activities
The MIPS Improvement Activities Category is one of the four categories comprising the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)'sMerit-based Incentive Pa...
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MIPS in Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine
Quality
MIPS in Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine
Collection period for Medicare's Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) 2023 started on January 1st, 2023 and ended on December 31, 2023.The original March...
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Reimbursement & Compliance
Expanding Care: Medicare's 2024 Coverage Update for Lymphedema Compression Treatment Items
Starting January 1, 2024, Medicare extended its coverage to include lymphedema compression treatment items for Medicare Part B patients. This long-awaited chang...
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Reimbursement & Compliance
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy - The 30 Day Requirement For Diabetic Foot Ulcer
Getting reimbursed for your services - preventing hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBO) services Medicare denials when treating Diabetic Foot Ulcers (DFU)When denying...
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REIMBURSEMENT & COMPLIANCE
December 2023 Updates on CMS Hyperbaric Reimbursement Discrepancies
December 2023 UpdatesOn December 21 2023, CMS issued an update to the previously published payment for HBOT, correcting the unadjusted reimbursement rate for CP...
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Skin Substitutes - What's New in 2024? Preparing for a Phased Approach
BackgroundAs outlined in our blog post " Skin Substitutes - What's New in 2023? Are Major Updates Coming Up?", in 2022 the Centers for Medicare and Medicare Ser...
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Reimbursement & Compliance
Skin Substitutes - What's New in 2023? Are Major Updates Coming Up?
BackgroundAs announced in July of 2022,the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed several changes to their policies forskin substitute produc...
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Safety stops, checklists… when to document
HBO Safety
Safety stops, checklists… when to document
Safety StopClinicians providing hyperbaric oxygen therapy go to great lengths to ensure patient safety with every treatment. We utilize processes and systems th...
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Reimbursement & Compliance
A Roadmap to Medical Billing and Coding Audits for Wound Care Providers
Wound care providers can use this medical billing roadmap to improve their clinical documentation and comply with medical necessity and payer coverage policy re...
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Spring 2023, Wound Reference Around the World
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Spring 2023, Wound Reference Around the World
Spring here is in full bloom! The WoundReference Team is excited and honored to support educational activities organized by the Brazilian Society for Plastic Su...
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Telemedicine
Reimbursement for Telemedicine Services in Wound Care
UpdatesWith the end of the Public Health Emergency (PHE), which is set to expire on 5/11/2023, the major Medicare telehealth flexibilities will not be affected,...
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Recent News and Articles - Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and Wound Care
Posted March 2023Clinical- AHRQ Systematic Review on telehealth: Use of Telehealth During the COVID-19 Era Systematic Review Jan 3, 2023 concluded that:"Whereas...
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Investigational HBOT Indications - Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Investigational HBOT Indications - Inflammatory Bowel Disease
IntroductionIt is time for the third installment of diseases that are considered “off-label” for hyperbaric oxygen ... yet, these diseases have some (sometimes ...
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COVID-19 - Cleaning the Hyperbaric Chamber
HBO Safety
COVID-19 - Cleaning the Hyperbaric Chamber
COVID-19 is caused bythe 2019 Novel Coronavirus, orSARS CoV-2.Many hyperbaric facilities have been wondering which cleaning products are effective against SARS ...
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News,Updates, Alerts
Recent News and Articles - Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and Wound Care (2018-2022)
Posted April 2022Reimbursement- COVID-19 PHE is Renewed Through July 15- CMS continues to gradually end some emergency blanket waivers allowed under the COVID-1...
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Investigational HBOT Indications
HBO Safety
Investigational HBOT Indications
We would like to start this blog series by emphasizing that we are not recommending HBOT for off-label indications. However, the use of HBOT for certain off-lab...
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Reimbursement & Compliance
How to set up and optimize your wound care formulary
Why set up and/or optimize your Institution’s Formulary?The goal of a wound care product formulary is to help all healthcare professionals who care and treat pa...
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Choosing a wound certification that is right for you
Scroll the table to the right to see all columnsCertificationCertifying entityEligibilityExperience required?LicensureNumber of exam questionsMinimum passing sc...
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Wound Reference Inc partners with Malta Association of Skin and Wound Care (MASC)
Wound Reference Inc partners with Malta Association of Skin and Wound Care (MASC)
Wound Reference Inc partners with Malta Association of Skin and Wound Care (MASC) to promote cost-effective, standardized wound management in Malta by leveragin...
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June is Wound Healing Awareness Month
June is Wound Healing Awareness Month
June is the Wound Healing Awareness Month! This annual celebration was created to recognize the challenges experienced by individuals whose lives are affected d...
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Prohibited Items, Risk Assessment And Authorization
HBO Safety
Prohibited Items, Risk Assessment And Authorization
What is your role in hyperbaricmedicine safety? Are you a Technologist, Nurse, Safety or Medical Director? In any of these roles, you will need to address prohi...
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Spanish Patient Education Materials In Wound Care and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Patient Education
Spanish Patient Education Materials In Wound Care and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
According to the United States (U.S.) Department of Health and Human Services, the Hispanic/Latino ethnic group includes any person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Ri...
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Simplifying wound care and hyperbaric product choices
Why WoundReference
Simplifying wound care and hyperbaric product choices
Wound care and hyperbaric products - too much to choose from, too little timeIt has been reported that at least 50% of chronic wounds in the real world do not h...
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Prohibited Items Vs Restricted?
Wound dressings are commonly used inside hyperbaric chambers. They play an important role in infection control and patient outcome. However, wound dressings, de...
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Helping People in Ukraine
Helping People in Ukraine
We have personally donated to charities supporting people in Ukraine. Would you like to help Ukraine as well? Here is a list of top charities assembled by our e...
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Quality of Care Requires Ongoing Competency Evaluations
HBO Safety
Quality of Care Requires Ongoing Competency Evaluations
Why conduct a Competency Assessment at your facility?Quality of care requires ongoing competency evaluationsAs clinical processes continue to grow in complexity...
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Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine Job Board
Jobs
Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine Job Board
This is an expanding list of job openings in wound care and hyperbaric medicine. Check back frequently for updates. The list is provided as a courtesy for your ...
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Hyperbaric Certification and Continuing Education for Technicians & Nurses
Continuing Education
Hyperbaric Certification and Continuing Education for Technicians & Nurses
The Importance and Recognition of Hyperbaric Certification for Technicians and NursesWhy get certified? It is the position of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medica...
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Limb preservation
Building a Limb Preservation Program: Challenges and Successes
Watch the InterviewThe literature shows that more than 60% of amputations are preventable. Among patients with chronic limb threatening ischemia, up to 50% of p...
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Continuing Education
Online CME and CEU Resources in Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine
This is an expanding list of free and paid resources for online continued medical education (CME) and continuing education unit (CEU) on wound care and hyperbar...
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WoundReference Co-Founder Tiff Hamm Wins the "The UHMS Associates Distinguished Service" 2021 Award
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WoundReference Co-Founder Tiff Hamm Wins the "The UHMS Associates Distinguished Service" 2021 Award
It is with great excitement that we announce that WoundReference Co-Founder and Chief Nursing OfficerTiffany Hamm, BSN, RN, CWS, ACHRN, UHMSADShas received "The...
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WoundReference Co-Founder Jeff Mize Wins the "The UHMS Associates Distinguished Service" 2020 Award
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WoundReference Co-Founder Jeff Mize Wins the "The UHMS Associates Distinguished Service" 2020 Award
It is with great excitement that we announce that WoundReference Co-Founder and Chief Clinical OfficerJeff Mize, BS, RRT, CHT, CWCA, UHMSDSAhas received "The UH...
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Nutritional Screening for Wound Care and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Nutritional Screening for Wound Care and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
How important is nutritional assessment in hyperbaric oxygen therapy?One of the keys to a successful patient outcome is assessing nutritional status. If the pat...
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How the Digital Age is Transforming Wound Care
How the Digital Age is Transforming Wound Care
Impact of the digital age in healthcareIt is widely understood at this point that the ever-increasing digitization of our world has begun to change the healthca...
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WoundReference Digital Formulary: Local Wound Care Formularies Made Easy
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WoundReference Digital Formulary: Local Wound Care Formularies Made Easy
What's new?Advances in Skin & Wound Care published updates on our study on implementation of the WoundReference Digital Formulary Module atNewton Medical Ce...
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Provider Supervision of HBOT
Do physicians need to directly supervise hyperbaric oxygen therapy services (HBOT)?It is helpful to first review the definitions of the different types of level...
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New Webinar! Adding Patient-Centered Telehealth to Your Wound Care Practice
Telemedicine
New Webinar! Adding Patient-Centered Telehealth to Your Wound Care Practice
Virtual experience joint-produced by the Mid-America Wound Healing Society & WoundReference. Available to WoundReference FREE subscribers. Sign up for a FRE...
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ACHM's First Annual Advanced Wound Care and Hyperbaric Conference 2020
Attendees were extremely pleased with the American College of Hyperbaric Medicine (ACHM)'s First Annual Advanced Wound Care and Hyperbaric Conference that took ...
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What wound care and HBOT clinicians need to know about Coronavirus
What wound care and HBOT clinicians need to know about Coronavirus
UpdatesHow many COVID-19 cases are there in the U.S.?- The number of cases is being actively monitored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).H...
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HBOT and COVID - 19
Here is what we know and what we don't know about HBOT and COVID-19Synopsis: UHMS Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Committee Meeting on COVID-19 and HBO2.This is a syn...
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[Now Live] TeleVisit Tool 2.0 Features for Improved Video Call Reliability
What's New?
[Now Live] TeleVisit Tool 2.0 Features for Improved Video Call Reliability
What's New in WoundReference?We've released 2 important features that enhance video call reliability: Pre-call Audio Test and the Restart Call ButtonWhy is this...
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[Now Live] TeleVisit Tool 2.0 Waiting Room Quick Tour For Patients and Invited Clinicians
What's New?
[Now Live] TeleVisit Tool 2.0 Waiting Room Quick Tour For Patients and Invited Clinicians
What's New in WoundReference?When patients and invited clinicians click on the link to the video call, they are directed to the TeleVisit Tool 2.0 waiting room,...
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News
A Peek Into 2021 - CMS Proposals and Implications for Wound Care Programs
In August 2020, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid published two proposed rules for the calendar year (CY) 2021 with provisions that may be of interest to wo...
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2020 July 24-26, WoundReference Wins Award and Presents Posters at the SAWC Virtual
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2020 July 24-26, WoundReference Wins Award and Presents Posters at the SAWC Virtual
PostersWoundReference presents three posters at the 2020SAWC Virtual Conference.The posters feature two of WoundReference's innovative tools: Dressing Change Br...
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3 Ways Telemedicine Can Help Wound Care Clinicians Combat the New Coronavirus (COVID-19)
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3 Ways Telemedicine Can Help Wound Care Clinicians Combat the New Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Impact of coronavirus in the U.S.The Trump Administration announced on 3/13/20 aggressive actions and regulatory flexibilities to help healthcare providers and ...
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WoundReference Offers Free Use of TeleVisit Tool Video Chat
Telemedicine
WoundReference Offers Free Use of TeleVisit Tool Video Chat
To assist with efforts aimed to decrease spread of COVID-19 and limit non-emergent healthcare visits, WoundReference is making available the HIPAA compliant Vid...
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What is new in 2019 for Telehealth and Telemedicine?
Telemedicine
What is new in 2019 for Telehealth and Telemedicine?
2019 was a landmark for telemedicine services -The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services started to reimburse healthcare providers for a broader range of...
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Interprofessional Internet Consultations with the WoundReference TeleVisit Tool
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Interprofessional Internet Consultations with the WoundReference TeleVisit Tool
What's new?Today's Wound Clinicfeatured our article entitled "Adopting Telemedicine in Wound Care: Interprofessional Internet Consultations".The article illustr...
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Webinar: Unwrapping Venous Leg Ulcers
Webinar: Unwrapping Venous Leg Ulcers
Virtual experience joint-produced by theMid-America Wound Healing Society & WoundReference. Available to WoundReference premium subscribers.Sign upto watch ...
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HBOT Chamber Maintenance Records Retention
HBO Safety
HBOT Chamber Maintenance Records Retention
How long do we need to keep hyperbaric oxygen therapy chamber logs/records/annual preventative maintenance records?As healthcare continues the process of transi...
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Investigational HBOT Indications - Preconditioning for Cardiac Surgery
Investigational HBOT Indications - Preconditioning for Cardiac Surgery
IntroductionWelcome to another post on plausible, off-label uses for hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT).We have previously discussed the rationale for using hyper...
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 Investigational HBOT Indications - Infertility
Investigational HBOT Indications - Infertility
INTRODUCTIONWe have previously discussed the rationale for using hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) in an “off-label” indication (see "Investigational HBOT Indica...
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Errors and Healthcare
Errors and Healthcare
IntroductionPatient safety is a serious public health issue. Like obesity and motor vehicle crashes, harms caused during care have significant mortality, morbid...
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2019 October 12-14, WoundReference Presents Posters and Wins Award at the SAWC Fall in Las Vegas
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2019 October 12-14, WoundReference Presents Posters and Wins Award at the SAWC Fall in Las Vegas
PostersWoundReference presents three posters at theSAWC Spring Conference October 12-14, 2019,Las Vegas, NV. The posters feature three of WoundReference's innov...
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2019 September 11-14, WoundReference presenting posters at the Wild on Wounds Conference in Vegas
2019 September 11-14, WoundReference presenting posters at the Wild on Wounds Conference in Vegas
WoundReference presents three posters at the Wild on Wounds (WOW) Conference in 2019. The posters feature three of WoundReference's innovative tools: Dressing C...
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HBO Safety
Hyperbaric Safety Drills - Are You Prepared?
Never underestimate the importance of safety drillsKnowing emergency procedures and drills are critical to safety in the workplace and for your patients. Perfor...
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Promoting Patient Education and Self-care with the Dressing Change Brochure Editor
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Promoting Patient Education and Self-care with the Dressing Change Brochure Editor
Does this sound familiar?Most of us have been in at least one of the situations below:- Not enough time during the visit to properly teach your patients how to ...
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Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy And Congestive Heart Failure
HBO
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy And Congestive Heart Failure
IntroductionIs congestive heart failure a contraindication to hyperbaric oxygen therapy?Congestive heart failure (CHF) may be a relative contraindication to hyp...
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Why WoundReference
HBO Knowledge Base - Overview and Tutorials
OVERVIEWOverviewTUTORIALSHBO Indications - Physician Order SetsHBO Threshold LevelsHBO Treatment TablesHBO Operations Manual - Emergency ProceduresHBO Operation...
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 Hyperbaric Program Staffing Guidelines - Why do We Need Them?
HBO Operations
Hyperbaric Program Staffing Guidelines - Why do We Need Them?
We all have asked ourselves...The development of staffing criteria of the hyperbaric service requires the consideration of several factors to ensure that each t...
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CMS Medically Unlikely Edits (MUE)
Reimbursement & Compliance
CMS Medically Unlikely Edits (MUE)
INTRODUCTIONWhat exactly are Medically Unlikely Edits (MUE)? 
 "A MUE isa maximum number of Units of Service (UOS) allowable under most circumstances for a sing...
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2019 May 7-11, WoundReference presenting posters at the SAWC Spring Conference in San Antonio
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2019 May 7-11, WoundReference presenting posters at the SAWC Spring Conference in San Antonio
WoundReference is presented two posters at the SAWC Spring Conference May 7–11, 2019,San Antonio, TX. The posters featured two of WoundReference's innovative to...
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Inclement weather?   Check the Chamber Exhaust Termination Points
HBO Safety
Inclement weather? Check the Chamber Exhaust Termination Points
Could your Chamber Exhaust Termination Points be blocked?April, May and June are the peak months for tornadoes in the United States. We have heard from colleagu...
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2019 April 25, WoundReference at the MidAmerica Wound Healing Society Conference
The WoundReference Team was so excited to be part of the event Partners in Wound Healing 2019 Heroes In Wound Care, organized by the MidAmerica Wound Healing So...
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WoundReference publishes new study on Instant Personalized Product Handouts
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WoundReference publishes new study on Instant Personalized Product Handouts
The WoundReference Team published the study entitled "A New Mobile-responsive Solution to Increase Patient Adherence: Instant Personalized Product Handouts" on ...
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Compressed Gas Handling And Safety
Compressed Gas Handling And Safety
Hyberbaric Chamber SafetyThe safe handling and storage of compressed gas cylinders in the hyperbaric facility should be done in compliance with the National Fir...
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Housekeeping and the NFPA 99
HBO Safety
Housekeeping and the NFPA 99
What is housekeeping?According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, housekeeping is:- the care and management of property and the provision of equipment and servi...
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HBO Safety
HBO must read - Hyperbaric Oxygen therapy and oxygen compatibility of skin and wound care products
This is a recommended read for all hyperbaric clinicians picked by our editorial team.Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy and Oxygen Compatibility of Skin and Wound Care ...
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HBO Safety
CMS NFPA 99 requirements - what does it take to be compliant?
Why is fire safety important in a hyperbaric oxygen therapy facility?Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBO) facilities are constantly at risk of fire, as conditions ne...
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CMS Targeted Probe and Educate for HBOT Codes 99183 & G0277
Reimbursement & Compliance
CMS Targeted Probe and Educate for HBOT Codes 99183 & G0277
Be aware and prepare for the Targeted Probe and Educate (TPE) review processThe goal of CMS's Targeted Probe and Educate program is to help providers and suppli...
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Know Your Place Of Service
Reimbursement & Compliance
Know Your Place Of Service
Why accurate reimbursement with place of service coding mattersInaccurate information on claims frequently leads to incorrect reimbursement and hassles when try...
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HBO Safety
Active Shooter In A Healthcare Facility
In early May 2018, two women were shot outside of Mount Sinai Hospital (Chicago) while waiting for news on a relative who was shot earlier in the day. In June 2...
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Reimbursement & Compliance
Obtaining Prior Authorization from Non-Medicare Carriers for Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
?INTRODUCTIONDenied claims due to unauthorized patient procedures or services can be a major loss in revenue. Although most medical offices and provider based d...
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The Role of the Medical Director in Hyperbaric Safety - A Brief Overview
HBO Safety
The Role of the Medical Director in Hyperbaric Safety - A Brief Overview
The Role of the Medical Directorin Hyperbaric SafetyI've been asked to address some of the qualities of a hyperbaric medical director with the theme of hyperbar...
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HBO
Free Sample HBO Topics
Below please find a list of selected sample topics to illustrate the types of content within the HBO Knowledge Base. These topics can also be accessed from the ...
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WoundReference wins the Journal of Wound Care Cost-effective Wound Management Award
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WoundReference wins the Journal of Wound Care Cost-effective Wound Management Award
The Award Entry in a NutshellLocal wound dressing formularies reinforce use of clinically appropriate and cost-effective products.The process of creating and ma...
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Free Sample Wound Care Topics
Below please find a list of selected sample topics to illustrate the types of content within the Wound Care Knowledge Base. These topics can also be accessed fr...
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2018 September 12-15, WoundReference presenting posters at the Wild on Wounds Conference in Vegas
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2018 September 12-15, WoundReference presenting posters at the Wild on Wounds Conference in Vegas
WoundReference presented the two posters below at the Wild on Wounds (WOW) Conference in 2018. The posters featured two of WoundReference's innovative tools, Pr...
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2018 September 13, WoundReference at the Mid-America Wound Healing Chapter Meeting
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2018 September 13, WoundReference at the Mid-America Wound Healing Chapter Meeting
Chief Nursing Officer Tiffany Hamm and Chief Clinical Officer Jeff Mize met with the members of the Mid-America Wound Healing Society at their Chapter Meeting i...
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