APWCA - Membership Benefits
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Education... The best available!
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Multidisciplinary cutting edge education
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Interactive discussion: optimize treatment protocol with other disciplines
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Latest technologies: via seminars, E-mail, newsletters and more
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Provide a voice for all of us to regain the ability to make treatment decisions...take the power from the insurance companies and return it to the medical profession
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Receive Synergy, the APWCA newsletter
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Free subscription to
Advances in Skin & Wound Care, the indexed journal
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Breaking news items in wound care communicated by E-mail monthly
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Attend seminars at discounted rates
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Affordable membership dues
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Insurance Initiative
The APWCA mission of “providing education” pertains to health care professionals as well as the lay public, patients and their caregivers. Through this “Initiative” the educational process takes a different direction and addresses how the quality of care is impacted by insurance issues. The APWCA believes the public needs to be better informed and serves as a conduit, using mainstream media to educate the general public on many important but often overlooked factors as exemplified below. The APWCA
is not a lobbying organization. It approaches these concerns through its
educational directives. Goals include expanding public awareness regarding
such issues as:
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Global fees that are not appropriate for wound care
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Length of stay regulations that do not consider the co-morbid conditions of patients
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The inefficiency of the need for
over-documentation for required services
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The
indiscriminant disallowance for services and supplies that are obviously needed including the frustration of denial for payments after approval was attained; disallowance for services/supplies without accountability and apparent impunity
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Need to increase
nurse/patient ratio
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Reform
home health care rules and regulations that impede the dispensing of care
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