Editorial Advisory Board

Kathleen Schaum recently celebrated her 54th year of working in the medical reimbursement arena. As the founder and president of her own consulting company, Kathleen D. Schaum & Associates, Inc. she shares her 50+ years of knowledge and experience with wound/ulcer management stakeholders. For the past 24 years, Kathleen has educated and consulted with wound/ulcer management providers and manufacturers. In addition, Ms. Schaum has guided manufacturers’ reimbursement strategies for nearly 500 wound/ulcer management products and procedures and has provided reimbursement education to 6,000+ executives and sales representatives. Ms. Schaum consults with numerous new and established hospital owned outpatient wound/ulcer management departments and wound/ulcer management professionals regarding the “business side of wound/ulcer management.” Her reimbursement teleconsultation services, Charge Description Master reviews, and coding/billing guidance provides a “lifeline” for many wound/ulcer management professionals and revenue cycle teams. Ms. Schaum continuously monitors reimbursement legislation and regulations and attends many reimbursement meetings and seminars to maintain her own knowledge regarding this ever-changing topic. Then she willingly shares that knowledge with wound/ulcer management stakeholders at national and regional symposiums and via her monthly reimbursement columns: Payment Strategies in Advances in Skin & Wound Care and Business Briefs in Today’s Wound Clinic, as well as her new column, entitled Consultation Corner, which appears quarterly in Today’s Wound Clinic. Based on her published articles, Kathleen was recently recognized as a world expert of reimbursement health insurance – she is in the top 0.089% and ranks number 26 out of 30,441 published worldwide authors.