APWCA - Membership Benefits
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Supports an extremely active Insurance Committee that regularly deals
with CMS and other insurance industry dealing with issues that impact on
reimbursement and allowance of services
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Provides
testimony and consultation for government agencies such as CMS
- Provides the highest quality conferences and
seminars in wound care, and at a discounted rates for its members.
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Provides other multiple resources for clinical
education, eg. Regional conferences throughout the country (and now
meetings abroad), Grand rounds, evening meetings, monthly wound care news
updates, and more. Contact us to coordinate a regional meeting with
your hospital, wound center, etc.
- Provides complicated cases consultation for our members
- Is an
independent multidisciplinary medical organization run totally by its
board and answering to its membership needs. It is not owned, staffed or
operated by a hospital conglomerate or other corporate entity.
- Provides opportunities and
guidance for authorship and publshing scientific articles. Publish an
article, have reprints available for
your medical community and your patients.
- Provides outreach programs
developing student chapters at
health care professional schools (Podiatry, Nursing, Physical Therapy).
Interested in being involved in our student program? Many
opportunities for participation!
- Power Point slides available for presentations for the public at large
or your medical community. Interested? Drop us an eMail or
give us a call.
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Offers Fellow, Diplomate & Associate designation for "credentialed"
members and other categories with less requirements.
- Provides Networking with colleagues in your specialty and other disciplines
- Membership
information by:
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Monthly
email News Updates
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Bi-annual Synergy
Newsletter
- Monthly
Journal: Peer Reviewed and Med-line indexed
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Growing web site with: Abstracts section, informational resources, hyperlinks to
vital services, and membership directory, etc.
- Lapel pin and lab coat APWCA patch to
demonstrate your interest in wound care.
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Patient Information Pamphlets (PIPs) for your
office, waiting room, patients first visit hand outs, explains to patients
and care givers the importance of your status with APWCA and patient care
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Provider Representation Accomplishments demonstrated from the following
selected examples from over past two years:
- Active in reversing
limitation regulations for ulcer debridements from various insurance
companies and Medicare carriers
- Key role in deferring competitive bidding
initiation from CMS
- Maintaining coverage for biological skin dressings
- Currently active in specific coding for different forms of wound care
- Education for regulatory agencies on the complexity of wound care
- Published guidance document on the selection and
implementation of clinical practice guidelines. An important and needed
accomplishment for the wound care industry from a clinical and regulatory
standpoint.
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