Kathleen Schaum, MS

Kathleen Schaum is a nationally recognized wound management reimbursement strategy consultant and educator with more than 50 years of industry experience. In addition to presenting at the 10 Wound Clinic Business seminars each year, Kathleen provides reimbursement education at many regional and national wound care symposiums.

Kathleen also shares her wound management reimbursement knowledge through two monthly journals. She is on the founding editorial board of Today’s Wound Clinic and recently celebrated her 11th anniversary as creator and author of the Business Briefs column in that journal. Kathleen also celebrated her 19th anniversary as creator and author of the Payment Strategies column in Advances in Skin & Wound Care. The wound management industry relies on Ms. Schaum to keep them informed about the coding, payment, coverage, and audit changes that impact their revenue in both the “volume-based” and “value-based” payment systems.