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FDA clears V1 Wound Vacuum System for marketing, Medicare confirms coding

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, December 19th, 2004

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared the BlueSky Versatile 1 Wound Vacuum System (V1 WVS) for marketing recently and Medicare confirmed coding decisions made to Versatile 1 products.

The BlueSky Wound Vacuum applies localized negative pressure to the wound bed to promote the healing of wounds. Localized negative pressure has been used to heal wounds for years and was reintroduced with flexible membrane technology in the 1980s by Katherine Jeter, EdD, ET.

The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently approved the reimbursement of the Versatile 1 Pump and the Chariker-Jeter Accessory kits. BlueSky, the number 2 company in...

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