BTER Foundation Support Effort for Improved Insurance Reimbursement
The BTER Foundation submitted letters to the AMA and CMS (Centers for Medicare and Mediaid Services) in support of establishing insurance codes for Maggot Therapy, like those that exist for other medical treatments. We need your support. Read all about the issue (be well-informed) and talk to your colleagues, friends and family. Then please write a letter to us, to AMA, or to CMS, expressing your support. We have posted instructions and addresses to help you, help us.

Maggot Therapy Video Project -
The Foundation's Maggot Therapy Video Project, initiated in 2004, has just published some of its interviews and instructional guides on YouTube. The project has recorded interviews with patients, therapists and researchers. A collection of some of these works will be available on CD shortly, but for now everyone can view them for free on YouTube. Visit our You Tube Video Link Page for a list of posted videos. More will be added as they are re-formatted for streaming video.

Maggot Therapy Workshops -
The next scheduled full-day MDT Workshop, co-sponsored by the Center for Wound Care Education, will be held on Thursday, September 20, 2007, as part of the Wild on Wounds 2007 Conference in Baltimore, Maryland. In addition to lectures on wound healing and maggot therapy, participants will spend the afternoon practicing their maggot therapy techniques on mock patients. Attendees will also have the rare opportunity to tour Monarch Labs, an actual producer of medical grade maggots. The faculty will include some of the same people who conducted the MDT workshops at the 2006 Annual Wound Haling Society meeting and the 2006 Symposium on Clinical Advances in Skin and Wound Care. Information about this and prior workshops can be found HERE.

Several more workshops are being planned, but no specific dates have yet been selected. If you would like to be notified of future workshops, contact the BTER Foundation and ask to be placed on our mailing list.

If you would like to co-host an hour lecture, grand rounds, or an entire workshop and training in your city, just contact the BTER Foundation.

International Conference on Biotherapy, Seoul, Korea -
The International Biotherapy Society along with Pochon CHA University (Complementary & Alternative Medicine) co-sponsored the 7th International Conference of Biotherapy in Seoul, Korea, June 20-24, 2007. The meeting was a great success, with representation from over a dozen countries. You can find a list of topics discussed at the official IBS Conference web-site: www.icb2007.org. Check back again for the forthcoming posting of conference abstracts.

If you would like to be notified of the next meeting time and location, or to join the IBS, visit their website at: www.md.huji.ac.il/conf/biotherapy.html.

Maggot Therapy Presentation Slides Available -
Thanks to a grant from Monarch Labs, it is now possible to view or download a copy of our MDT Slideset #50. This series of slides is an abridged version of our Maggot Therapy Workshop curriculum, describing the basic principles and practice of maggot therapy. It is posted as an Adobe Acrobat or portable document file (pdf format) for ease of viewing and printing. The 50MB PowerPoint version is still available only on CD, and only formatted for MS Windows at this time. View it HERE.

The Winter, 2006 issue of "The BeTER LeTTER" is now available on the web -
The BTER Foundation's newsletter is filled with current events, announcements, interviews, and news stories about Biotherapy from around the world. The current issue features an article from China describing how doctors used maggot therapy to save a patient's re-attached arm. Check out the current issue and past issues at: www.bterfoundation.org/indexfiles/letter.htm. To receive future issues, subscribe by providing the Editor with your e-mail and/or fax number.

Maggot Therapy and the BTER Foundation in the News
Many news and media reports have recently featured stories about maggot therapy and the BTER Foundation. Check them out, along with many other links and references, by visiting our "Links" web page.

Maggot Therapy Reimbursement -
The BTER Foundation, in its efforts to assist patients and therapists, announces the latest advances in reimbursement status for biotherapeutic medical procedures: CPT and ABC codes are available for requesting reimbursement from Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance. Read all about it in the full Press Release for March, 2006: Coding for Maggot Therapy.

Maggot Debridement Therapy Policies & Procedures -
The BTER Foundation, in collaboration with community leaders, drafted a template for hospitals and clinics to use when writing MDT Policies & Procedures for their facility. The template is available for free download.

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