Wound care? Why the hell would you be calling on wound care? No reimbursement, except in some states and even then it's WS and per mg of powder.
Wound care wants to treat every week; Apligraft, Dermagraft, Hyperbarics. Those all reimburse big time. Here's your pitch to Wound Care (ACell positive and Reality) "Hello MD would you rather spend $3,000 on ACell over next 5 weeks and heal the patient or spend $7,500 on other Medicare approved treatments and collect $22,000 over the next 12 months?" ACell is better patient option but not better economical option for WC so a positive additude ain't changing that despite our arm wrasslin' preaching change, it ain't coming soon. Too much money being made with other options. The Genius needs to get the studies started!
You ain't layin 3 grams of Powdah in a wound care center!
as a doctor, i would imagine i would adhere to the hippocratic oath to which i swore, and i would go with whatever provided the best patient outcome.
as a doctor, i would imagine i would adhere to the hippocratic oath to which i swore, and i would go with whatever provided the best patient outcome.
Companies like Healogics should be banned from Medicare billing as they only use products that they can bill, regardless of what is best for the patient or healing the wound quickly. At least they are falling out of vougue where hospitals are choosing to manage their own wound care clinics. Its just not happening quickly enough.
Why are you upset? Because they won't use your product which has no data? Do you realize if you get the data, then the reimbursement will follow? It's not rocket science. Walking in with your IPad won't do squat. If you ran the wound center and had a clue, you would not use ACell either.
Poster 5.. Please just be quiet. Medicine is about money and what's "best for the patient" depends on what is effective AND economically viable. This not only true in wound care. It's true across the spectrum of medicine.
