Must read The New York Times article that was just published on #wound care costs exploding because of skin substitutes. Our CEO Nima Ahmadi says it well: as a country we need better wound care regulations AND better wound care. We can't forget about the latter -- this is where The Wound Company comes in, supporting health care organizations nationwide to replace bad wound care with high quality, affordable and personalized wound care. In our model of care, skin substitutes are used rarely and only when medically necessary after the patient has been holistically managed and other approaches have been fully exhausted. We achieve industry leading healing rates and prevent wound-related hospitalizations on the most complicated wounds and challenging patients by delivering good wound care in-person and virtually as part of a larger, highly proactive team approach. #woundcare #wounds
Delivering Medically Necessary, High Quality & Affordable Wound Care to Millions of Americans. Patients > Perverse FFS Incentives.
The New York Times just published a piece on skin substitutes ❗ , explaining how spending has soared on skin substitutes and wound care by billions of dollars in the last few years. "Medicare now spends more on [just some wound dressings] than on ambulance rides, anesthesia or CT scans" I want to see better payment policies and a rational reimbursement environment in wound care, but I don't believe we'll ever get to the right answer under fee-for-service where groups can inherently make more the longer patients are wounded, the bigger their wounds, and the more wounds they have, especially as our population ages rapidly, lives longer, and is more sick with conditions like diabetes. This problem is getting out of control. The unanswered issue remains what do you replace this bad wound care with immediately for millions of vulnerable seniors around the country? Most patients have limited trust in government healthcare or insurance companies. Regulations = taking care away. Without a better, more personalized, more affordable and more accessible wound care solution available to support the patients that they can trust immediately, gaps in care, healthcare inertia and underlying patient frustrations will contribute to inefficient actors remaining in place and costs continuing to spiral. We founded The Wound Company as the first (and only still) value-based wound care provider in the United States because we saw this cost trend coming long before the New York Times ever heard of skin substitutes or advanced wound dressings. There are systematic issues here on a massive scale that need systematic solutions, including better regulation and better care. https://lnkd.in/gCy_WcGm