Alliance in the News

2024

• Advances in Wound Care
  • Better Wound Care Begins With Better Evidence: Outcomes of the Wound Care Evidence Summit  (March)
• Journal of Wound Care
  • US Wound Care Advocacy and Patient Access: 2023 Impacts and 2024 Initiatives (March)
• Today’s Wound Clinic / Wound Care Learning Network
  • What Wound Care Advocacy Achieved in 2023 and Works Toward in 2024 (Feb.)
  • A Closer Look at the CMS MACs’ Recent Proposed Coverage Policies for CTPs (May)
  • Policy Updates on Surgical Dressings, Wound Dressing Classifications, and More (May)
  • How CMS 2025 Proposed Payment Updates Could Impact Wound Care (Oct.)
  • CMS 2025 Final Payment Rules: Key Takeaways for Wound Care Providers (Nov.)
• Vein Specialist
  • Advocating to Improve Wound Care: AVF and the Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders (Sept.)
• Wound Source
  • What Wound Care Advocacy Achieved in 2023 and Works Toward in 2024  (Feb.)

2023

• Today’s Wound Clinic:
  • CMS Withdraws Local Coverage Policy That Dramatically Restricted Access to CTPs  (Sept.)
  • Prevent Care Interruptions with CTPs for DFU/VLU Patients - Advocacy Call to Action (Sept.)
  • Could New Legislation Help Clinicians Prevent Amputation? (July)
  • The Business of Wound Care at SAWC Spring (April)

• Podiatry Today:
  • CMS Withdraws Local Coverage Policy That Dramatically Restricted Access to CTPs/Skin Substitutes (Sept.)
  • Could New Legislation Help Clinicians Prevent Amputation? (July)

• Podcast: Advances in Skin & Wound Care's Word on Wounds:
  • Advocating to Improve Patient Access to Wound Care with the Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders (Sept.)

• Podcast: Speaking of Wounds:
  • How Changes to CTPs Could Impact Providers and Patient Care (Sept.)

2022

• Advances in Skin & Wound Care: 
  • Coverage, Payment, and the Impact of Advocacy (Jan.)
• Podiatry Today: 
  • CMS Releases 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (Dec.)
• Today's Wound Clinic
  • An Overview of the 2023 CMS Payment Policies Impacting Wound Care (Dec.)
  • 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule: Wound Care Wins, Challenges, and Opportunities (Nov.)
  • Could Proposed Policy Changes in the 2023 Physician Fee Schedule Increase Amputations and Infections in Patients With Wounds? (Sept.)
  • Remove Patient Access Barriers by Correcting Inadequacies in CTP Payments in the 2023 Hospital OPPS Proposed Rule (Sept.)
  • Promoting Quality Care with the Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders Video Interview  (April)
  • Wound Care Community: Let’s Make Our Voices Heard to Drive Payer and Regulator Acceptance of Real-World Evidence (March)

• Wound Management & Prevention
  • CMS Releases 2023 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (Dec.)
  • Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders Submits Comments on CTP Provisions (Oct.)

• Wound Source
  • Wound Care Evidence Summit to Gain Payer and Regulator Perspectives on Clinical Evidence and Coverage Challenges (March)