PROVIDER STATEMENT

Provided by HMP Education, an HMP Global Company.

INTENDED LEARNERS

This educational activity is specifically designed for physicians, physician associates/assistants, nurses, nurse practitioners, dietitians, and podiatrists.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

After participating in this activity, learners should be better able to:

Business of Wound Care: Starting Something New – Focus on Outpatient and Mobile Programs

• Upon completion of this presentation, the participant will  identify 3  operational  and clinical-related  processes  of running a mobile wound care  business across  various post acute-care  settings
• Upon completion of this presentation, the participant will learn to  identify  3 clinical indications for using cellular tissue products as mobile wound care providers and learn how standardized protocols assist  patients  heal faster and with less complications
• Upon completion of this presentation, the participant will review  2  consolidated billing regulations that can govern services and affect billing in post-acute care

Business of Wound Care: No Such Thing as an “Office Visit”: Evaluation and Management Coding and Documentation

• Define "chronic" as it applies to CPT's evaluation and management "number and complexity of problems"
• List the four medical decision making levels for office evaluation and management services
• Differentiate between the medical decision making pathway and the total time pathway when choosing office evaluation and management levels

Business of Wound Care: CTPs Meshing Effectiveness and Reimbursement

• Documentation of skin substitutes, grafts/CTPs application to accurately align with LCD regulations
• Key watchouts when documenting a medical procedure
• LCD verification of skin substitutes, grafts/CTPS for the specific wound, location, and intention to treat
• Q&A relating to actual cases intended to emphasize key learning objectives
• Corrective action planning for your wound carer practice

Business of Wound Care: Challenges in Hyperbaric Medicine: Credentialling, Audits and Documentation

• Credentialling in hyperbaric medicine: current professional standards.
• Regulations: Physician Supervision of Hyperbaric Medicine: What does it mean?
• Understand difference between general supervision and direct supervision
• Explain and understand the role of advance beneficiary notice
• Understand hierarchical condition category score
• Understand the impact of appropriate HCC coding on payment
• Audits
  • Understand why CMS wants to make physician data public
  • Understand how physicians compare data
  • Benchmarking: Importance of registering as a hyperbaric physician under the CMS database
  • Understand target and probe audits
• Documentation requirements for HBO indications
  • Understand the specific requirements for common indications

Wound Care Business Navigator: Wound Care Centers and Teams: How to Address the Growing Need with Shrinking Support

• Discuss current gaps in wound care establishment and access
• Understand limitation is gathering adminstrative support for wound care and wound care centers within hospitals
• Learn about obstacles overcome by others with similar dilemmas and potential solutions

Wound Care Business Navigator: Top 10 Reimbursement Tips For Getting Paid and Keeping Your Payment

• Assess if 2025 coding changes are reflected in your coding systems
• Critique your medical decision-making and documentation to align with 2025 coverage requirements
• Evaluate if 2025 payment changes are implemented in your billing systems

Wound Care Business Navigator: Documentation For The New LCD

• Understand Key Policy Changes: Identify and interpret the updates regarding coverage, application limits, and duration for skin substitute grafts/CTPs, including their use over exposed bone, muscle, and tendon
• Improve Documentation Practices: Learn to document medical necessity, wound progression, and compliance effectively to meet Medicare's revised standards
• Enhance Clinical Application: Apply evidence-based strategies to incorporate the updated LCD policy into wound care treatment protocols, ensuring patient and provider adherence

Wound Care Business Navigator: Rapid Fire: Reimbursement Tips to Implement Results of Wound Management Advocacy: CTPs, PRP, and More. . .

• Implement advocacy wins in the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule
• Implement advocacy wins for surgical dressing claims processing
• Continue to advocate for outstanding wound care coverage, coding, and payment issues

Wound Care Business Navigator: Reimbursement Advocacy Wins - It is Up to You to Implement Them and Prepare for Audits!

• Identify key reimbursement advocacy successes in wound care, implement recommended practices to maximize compliance and reimbursement, and prepare effectively for audits
• Analyze recent changes in reimbursement policies impacting wound care and apply strategic approaches to ensure alignment with payer expectations and regulatory requirements

Wound Care Business Navigator: Real-Life Scenarios: Reimbursement “What Ifs?”

• Evaluate and refine business practices
• Critique and improve coding and billing processes
• Locate and implement pertinent documentation and coverage guidelines

Wound Care Business Navigator: PAWSIC: Value Based Care - Where Does Wound Care Fit In?

• Identify and describe the key characteristics of alternative reimbursement models, including Value-Based Care (VBC), and explain how these models differ from traditional volume-based reimbursement
• Evaluate strategies for effectively integrating wound care into value-based care models while maintaining a focus on quality of service and patient outcomes
• Analyze the various roles that wound care can occupy within value-based care frameworks, including the potential positive and negative impacts depending on model design and clinical guidance

ACTIVITY OVERVIEW

This on-demand webcast is available with synchronized slides and video/audio.

To be eligible for documentation of credit for each session attended, learners must participate in each activity, complete each 4-question post-test with a minimum score of 70% and complete each activity evaluation. Participants who complete the evaluation online within 90 days of purchase will receive documentation of credit. Your certificate may not load if you are accessing it from a smartphone, or if your browser settings do not allow a new tab/window to open. 

Once a certificate has been claimed, physicians and pharmacists may elect for credits to be submitted on their behalf to their boards via additional fields that will appear within the Claim Certificate page. Credits must be submitted through this process to be reported to the American Board of Surgery and the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy.

Release Date: January 16, 2026 
Expiration Date: 90 Days After Purchase
Last Available Date of Purchase: April 16, 2026
Estimated Time to Complete: 10.5 hours

There is no fee associated with this activity.

HARDWARE/SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

The activity is best supported via a computer or device with current versions of the following browsers: Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, or Safari. A PDF reader is required for print publications. 

CONTINUING EDUCATION

In support of improving patient care, HMP Education is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Note: This statement is not an indication of approved credits. Please see below for full accreditation details, including credit types and totals, for this activity.

PHYSICIANS

HMP Education designates this internet enduring activity for a maximum of 10.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

NURSES

This continuing nursing education internet enduring activity awards 10.5 contact hours.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #18006, for 10.5 contact hours. 

NURSE PRACTITIONERS

American Academy of Nurse Practitioners National Certification Program accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credit^TM from organizations accredited by the ACCME.

PHYSICIAN ASSOCIATES/ASSISTANTS

HMP Education has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credits for activities planned in accordance with the AAPA CME Criteria. This internet enduring activity is designated for 10.5 AAPA Category 1 credits. Approval is valid until January 16, 2027.

DIETITIANS

PODIATRISTS

HMP Education is approved by the Council on Podiatric Medical Education as a provider of continuing education in podiatric medicine. HMP Education has approved this internet enduring activity for a maximum of 10.5 continuing education contact hours.

INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION

Visit this link for countries and regions have reciprocity with the ACCME.  

Visit this link for additional countries that accept ACCME-accredited continuing medical education (CME). 

USE OF PROPRIETARY NAMES

This continuing medical education activity may include device or medicine brand names for participant clarity purposes only, due to the presence of different branded versions of the same product. No product promotion or recommendation should be inferred.

UNAPPROVED AND/OR INVESTIGATIONAL USES OF DRUGS AND DEVICES

This activity may contain information about experimental and other uses of drugs or devices that are not currently approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) of the European Union or the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the United States. Participants are strongly encouraged to consult approved product labeling for any drug or device mentioned in this activity before use. The opinions expressed during this activity are the opinions of the respective authors, presenters, or moderators and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of HMP Education.

DISCLAIMERS

The material presented and related discussions are not intended to be medical advice, and the presentation or discussion of such material is not intended to create and does not establish a provider-patient relationship. Medical advice of any nature should be sought from an individual’s own healthcare provider.

The opinions expressed in this educational activity are those of the faculty and are not attributable to HMP Global or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates. Clinical judgment must guide each professional in weighing the benefits of treatment against the risk of toxicity. Dosages, indications, and methods of use for products referred to in this activity are not necessarily the same as indicated in the package insert for each product, may reflect the clinical experience of the presenters, and may be derived from the professional literature or other clinical sources. Consult complete prescribing information before administering.

DISCLOSURE OF RELEVANT FINANCIAL RELATIONSHIPS

HMP Education is an independent provider of continuing medical education. HMP Education has no proprietary or financial interest in medical or healthcare products over which the FDA (USA) or EMA (EU) has regulatory authority. 

In accordance with our disclosure policies, HMP Education is committed to ensuring balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor for all accredited continuing education. These policies include assigning relevance to and mitigating all perceived or real relevant financial relationship (conflicts of interest) between any individual with control over the content and any ineligible company (commercial interest) as defined by the ACCME and CPME. 

Any individual with control over accredited content, including planner, faculty, and reviewer, is required to globally disclose: 

1. Individual relationship(s) or lack thereof, and its nature, with any/all ineligible company, and;  

2. Any investigational, off-label, or non-FDA approved content or discussion 

HMP Education has reviewed these disclosures, assigned relevance based on the relationship and scope of content, and identified those with the potential to compromise the goals and educational integrity of the education. Relevant relationships, or lack thereof, are shared with the learner. 

Education has been independently peer-reviewed to validate content, mitigate identified financial relationships (conflicts of interest), and ensure: 

1. All recommendations involving clinical medicine are based on evidence that is accepted within the medical profession as adequate justification for their indications and contraindications in the care of patients. 

2. All scientific research referred to, reported, or used in accredited continuing education in support or justification of a patient care recommendation conforms to generally accepted standards of experimental design, data collection, and analysis. 

3. Content is appropriate, fair and balanced, unbiased, referenced, and non-promotional. 

All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated.

FACULTY

The faculty have reported the following: 

Leah Amir, MSc, MHA – Moleculight, Inc.: Consultant (Ongoing)

Beatriz Coccaro-Word, DNP, APRN, ANP-BC, CWS – On Call Wound Care, LLC: Employee/Owner (Ongoing)

Kara Couch, MS, CRNP, CWCN-AP, FAAWC – Nothing to disclose

Matthew G. Garoufalis, DPM, FASPS, FACFAOM, CWS, FFPM RCPS (Glasg) – AOTI: Employee/Owner (Ongoing)

Martha R. Kelso, RN, CHWS, HBOT – ​3M: Advisory Board (Ongoing)|3M: Consultant (Ongoing)|Aroa Biosurgery: Advisory Board (Ongoing)|Coalition for At-Risk Skin (CARS): Advisory Board (Ongoing)|Convatec: Consultant (Ongoing)|Convatec: Speaker's Bureau (Ongoing)|Medline: Advisory Board (Ongoing)|Medline: Consultant (Ongoing)|Medline: Speaker's Bureau (Ongoing)|MiMedx: Speaker's Bureau (Ongoing)|MolecuLight: Advisory Board (Ongoing)|Post-Acute Wound & Skin Integrity Council (PAWSIC): Advisory Board (Ongoing)|Smith & Nephew: Consultant (Ongoing)|Smith & Nephew: Speaker's Bureau (Ongoing)|The Journal of Legal Nurse Consulting: Other Financial or Material Support (Terminated)|Tides Medical: Consultant (Terminated)

Jeffrey D. Lehrman, DPM, FASPS, MAPWCA, CPC, CPMA ‒ American Podiatric Medical Association: Consultant (Ongoing)|Amerx: Consultant (Ongoing)|Hyperion: Consultant (Ongoing)|Lehrman Consulting, LLC: Other Financial or Material Support (Ongoing)|Mimosa: Consultant (Ongoing)|Moleculight: Consultant (Ongoing)|Organogenesis, Inc: Speaker's Bureau (Ongoing)|Orpyx Medical Technologies: Advisory Board (Ongoing)|Smith+Nephew: Speaker's Bureau (Ongoing) 

Eric J. Lullove, DPM CWSP DABLES MAPWCA FFPM RCPS(Glasg) ‒ Advisory Board: CarePics; Consultant: CarePics; Other Financial or Material Support: CarePics

Kumar Madassery, MD – Nothing to disclose

Nicolas J. Mouawad, MD, MPH, MBA, DFSVS, FRCS, FACS, RPVI – Boston Scientific, Inc.: Consultant (Ongoing) |Inari Medical: Consultant (Ongoing)|MiMedx: Speaker's Bureau (Ongoing)|Shockwave Medical: Consultant (Ongoing)

Marcia Nusgart, R.Ph. – Nothing to disclose

Julie Rhodovi, MBA, CWCA, LBBH – Employee/Owner - Tissue Health Plus

Kathleen D. Schaum, MS – Nothing to disclose

Jayesh B. Shah, MD, UHM(ABPM), CWSP, FAPWCA, FCCWS, FUHM, FACP, FACHM – Best Publishing Company: Royalties/Patent Income (Ongoing)|Essity: Advisory Board (Ongoing)|Essity: Speaker's Bureau (Ongoing)|Integra Lifesciences: Speaker's Bureau (Ongoing)|MR3 Health: Advisory Board (Ongoing)|MR3 Health: Consultant (Ongoing)|MR3 Health: Other Financial or Material Support (Ongoing)|TImeoxygen Healing Concepts, LLC: Employee/Owner (Ongoing)|TImeoxygen Healing Concepts, LLC: Major Stockholder (Ongoing)|vTail Healthcare Telecommunications Limited: Advisory Board (Ongoing)|Wound Doctors app: Major Stockholder (Ongoing)|Wound Doctors app: Royalties/Patent Income (Ongoing)|WoundSource: Advisory Board (Ongoing)|WoundSource/WoundCon: Advisory Board (Ongoing)|WoundSource/WoundCon: Other Financial or Material Support (Ongoing)|WoundSource/WoundCon: Speaker's Bureau (Ongoing)

CLINICAL REVIEWERS

Robert S. Kirsner, MD, PhD, FAAD
Chairman and Harvey Blank Chair
Dr. Phillip Frost Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery
Director, University of Miami Hospital and Clinics Wound Center
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Miami, Florida

Susie Seaman, NP, MSN, CWCN, CWS (nurse planner)
Wound Clinic, Family Health Centers of San Diego
San Diego, California

Lee C. Ruotsi, MD, ABWMS, CWS-P, UHM
Medical Director
Holland Hospital
Holland, Michigan

Robert Kirsner, MD, PhD, FAAD: Consultant – Cell Constructs Inc.

Lee Ruotsi, MD, ABWMS, CWS-P, UHM: Advisory Board – Molnlycke Health Car; Consultant – Smith-Nephew; Speaker's Bureau – Molnlycke Health Car, Smith-Nephew

Susie Seaman, NP, MSN, CWCN, CWS: has disclosed no relevant financial relationship with any ineligible company (commercial interest). 

PLANNING COMMITTEE

Planning for this activity was conducted by faculty advisors. To further support the development of the content, additional information regarding professional roles, responsibilities, and teamwork was gathered through survey input from our target audience and/or a comprehensive literature review.  

HMP Education planners and staff include Sam Bella; Brielle Calleo; Daivid DePinho; MaryEllen Fama; Mary Johnson; Samantha Joy; Randy Robbin; and Andrea Zimmerman, EdD, CHCP. No HMP Education staff has disclosed a relevant financial relationship with any ineligible company (commercial interest).

ADA STATEMENT

HMP Education complies with the legal requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the rules and regulations thereof. Any participant in this educational activity who needs accommodation(s) may submit a request to the support team. 

PRIVACY POLICY

HMP Education protects the privacy of personal and other information regarding participants, educational partners, and joint providers. HMP Education and our joint providers will not release personally identifiable information to a third party without the individual’s consent, except such information as is required for reporting purposes to the appropriate accrediting agency. HMP Education maintains physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with federal regulations to guard your nonpublic personal information. 

COMMERCIAL SUPPORT

No commercial interest provided financial support for this continuing education activity. 

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