Advocating to Improve Patient Access to Wound Care with the Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders

01/09/2023 35 min
Advocating to Improve Patient Access to Wound Care with the Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders

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In this episode of Word on Wounds, Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders Founder and CEO Marcia Nusgart, RPh and Health Care Policy Advisor Karen Ravitz, JD discuss how clinicians’ advocacy to CMS, FDA, and Congress can address coverage and payment challenges and improve patient access to care. Marcia and Karen cover past successes, then dive into one of the “hot button” policy issues today – Medicare coverage and payment of cellular and tissue-based products for wounds (CTPs, previously known as “skin substitutes”). Get up to speed on policy issues impacting wound care today and learn how you as a wound care provider can have a voice to impact policy change.   Transcript

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