"The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) along with the Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) are actively working on updating skin substitute policies to address the infusion of new products and skyrocketing prices the space has seen in the past 5 years. This has resulted in payment policies and coverage decisions being considered that may jeopardize wound care as a specialty."
This article by CEO Shaun Carpenter, MD, CWSP discusses how changes to the skin substitute application procedure and product code classes can stop rising costs from threatening this advanced modality.
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