The Buck Stops Here:

Chronic Wound Care from a Clinical and Payment Perspective

The Most Important Wound, Skin, Incontinence and Nutrition Care Meeting You will Attend in 2007!

2007

Chronic wound management is a billion-dollar industry in this country. Healthcare professionals, regardless of level of expertise or practice setting, must be able to provide quality, cost-effective care based on national standards of practice.

Increase your knowledge of current wound care information. Carolyn Cuttino, RN, BS, and Kathleen D. Schaum, MS, esteemed faculty, will offer an overview of evidence-based management, and adjunctive strategies for the chronic wound. Basic coding, coverage, and payment system information will also be discussed. This 1-day seminar will provide the clinical and financial basics to practice effectively in a variety of healthcare settings.

The afternoon sessions will offer the learner the opportunity to choose a clinical or reimbursement track. Ms. Cuttino will lead two workshops on pressure ulcers and lower extremity wounds. Ms. Schaum will hold fireside chats with participants to answer specific coding, coverage, and payment questions.

Bring your reimbursement issues to the table for one-on-one discussions with our reimbursement specialist or plan to participate in the clinical workshops and fine-tune your critical thinking surrounding prevention of pressure ulcers and management of difficult-to-heal wounds.

Learning Objectives

  1. Gain an appreciation of how the payment systems change as patients with chronic wounds receive care in various sites of service and by different providers.
  2. Appreciate the wound care specialists’ obligations in the development and management of wound prevention and management programs for all levels of staff.
  3. Fine-tune your skills in wound prevention, assessment, and chronic wound management.

Meeting Schedule

8:00-8:15am
Welcome & Introduction

8:15-9:00am
Payment Perspective Throughout the Continuum of Care

9:00-9:20am
Reengineering Chronic Wound Management: A Paradigm Shift of "Who's Minding the Wounds?"

9:20-10:00am
Science of Wound Healing

10:00-10:30am
Break

10:30-11:00am
Wound Assessment: The Foundation of Chronic Wound Management

11:00-11:45am
Wound Bed Preparation, Debridement, Bioburden Control, Pain Management

11:45am-12:15pm
Dressing the Wound for Success

12:15-1:15pm
Lunch

1:15-2:00pm
Advanced Technologies When Standard of Care Fails: Drugs, Devices, and Biologics

2:00-2:30pm
Payment Perspective: Local Coverage, Determinations Surgical Dressing Negative, Pressure Wound Therapy

2:30-2:45pm
Break

2:45-3:30pm
Pressure Ulcer Workshop -OR- Fireside Chat with Reimbursement Specialist

3:30-4:30pm
Lower Extremity Wound Workshop -OR-Fireside Chat with Reimbursement Specialist

4:30-5:00pm
Q&A with Clinician and Reimbursement Specialist

Audio Introductions

Message from Carolyn Cuttino, RN, BS, CWOCN | Bio

Message from Kathleen D. Schaum, MS | Bio