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CMS Policies Are Gutting U.S. Wound Care While Rewarding a Foreign Manufacturer

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have created a health care crisis that’s threatening patients in dire need of care and decimating American made products, the best in the world.

THE REALITY

  • In a matter of weeks, there’s been more than an 80% decline in wound care volume as CMS’s Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) rule withholds and precludes coverage, and providers are forced to stop prescribing.

  • As a result, clinic closures and service cutbacks are leaving Several million patients unable to access state-of-the-art wound care.

  • As U.S. manufacturers are forced out of the market and providers cannot treat patients, an India-based manufacturer is offering its product at virtually no cost to providers.

    • The product was previously sold in the U.S. at an ASP of $4,227.97 per square centimeter and is now being offered for less than 0.3% of that amount, without any published clinical evidence of effectiveness, and imported from India.

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THE TRUMP PLEDGE

  • In 2025, to counter a dangerous policy proposed by the Biden Administration, President Trump let patients across America know that “help was on the way.”

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THE REMEDY

  • CMS must expedite a coverage policy that ensures adequate reimbursement and market access for safe, clinically effective skin substitute products.

    • Journal of wound care, VOL 34, NO 10 (2025)

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