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Plain-language guides on wound care products, billing, documentation, and running a compliant wound program. Written for practice managers, providers, and nurses at wound care centers, podiatry, dermatology, surgical, and long-term care settings.
New posts about every two weeks. Topics we cover: skin substitute billing and coverage, fish skin grafts, advanced dressing selection, NPWT, compression and offloading, onboarding a wound program, and audit-ready documentation.
Skin substitute payment and coverage in 2026
How Medicare pays skin substitutes in 2026, where the coverage policies stand, where WISeR prior authorization runs, and what to check before a product is applied.
Benefit verification and working with your outside biller
What we check before a product is used, and what we hand to your billing or revenue-cycle company.
Amniotic membrane skin substitutes
What we supply in this category, how ordering and tracking work, and the coverage points to check.
Skin substitute billing in the office setting: a practice manager's guide
How benefit verification, application limits, wastage documentation, and coverage policy fit together for skin substitutes billed in a physician office. Written for wound care practice managers.
Fish skin grafts: what wound care clinics should know
An overview of acellular fish skin grafts for wound care clinics, including where they fit alongside amniotic and synthetic products, storage and handling, and how to discuss them with patients.
Adding advanced wound care to a podiatry practice
A 90-day plan for podiatry practices adding skin substitutes and advanced wound care, covering formulary selection, benefit verification, documentation, staffing, and the first claims.
The wound care documentation checklist that survives an audit
A field-by-field wound care documentation checklist for clinics using skin substitutes, dressings, and NPWT, built around what payers and auditors look for.