Clinical and Financial Implications of Wound Care
Management Across the Care Continuum

A continuing medical education activity sponsored by NAMCP and AAMCN
This activity was held live at the 2009 Spring Managed Care Forum.

This activity is valid from August 7, 2009 to August 31, 2010
 
 

Audience: This activity is intended for healthcare professionals practicing in managed care environments.

This activity is supported by an educational grant from Kinetic Concepts, Inc. (KCI)
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Instructions for CME/CEU:  View the presentation, answer the post test, complete the evaluation form and submit to keads@namcp.org.  A score of 70% must be achieved on the post test to receive continuing education credits. You will have the option on the post test/evaluation page to submit your forms electronically or by faxing them to Katie Eads at 804-747-5316.

Summary
Healing wounds is an expensive endeavor for managed care. Because the population is aging and diabetes prevalence is on the rise, this problem is going to continue to grow. When all the costs related to wound care are examined from a real world perspective, advanced therapies such as negative pressure wound therapy are cost effective. To maximize cost effectiveness, advanced therapies should be applied in a timely manner to those patients most likely to benefit.

Objectives

  • Identify the cost benefit in the prevention of wounds

  • Close the gap between clinical effectiveness and cost effectiveness

  • Discuss opportunities to reduce costs

  • Recognize your role in cost management

Faculty: Caroline Fife, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology
University of Texas Health Science Center
   

Disclosure:

 Dr. Fife is a major stockholder in Intellicure, Inc., serves on the speaker’s bureau for KCI, Organogenesis and RW Johnson and receives research grant funding from KCI and Organogenesis.
  The NAMCP planning committee has no real or perceived financial relationships to disclose.

Accreditation & Designation
The National Association of Managed Care Physicians (NAMCP) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to sponsor continuing medical education for physicians. NAMCP designates this activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category I creditsTM. Each physician should claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

The American Association of Managed Care Nurses (AAMCN) has been approved as a provider of continuing education by the Virginia Nurses Association (VNA). VNA is accredited as an approver of continuing education in nursing by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Nurses who complete this activity will be awarded 1.0 contact hours.

This activity has been approved by the American Board of Managed Care Nursing for 1.0 contact hours toward CMCN recertification requirements.

  

This activity is supported by an educational grant from Kinetic Concepts, Inc. (KCI)