00 — The Practice
Callahan Healthcare Partners provides physician-directed wound care to skilled nursing facilities and primary care clinics across Los Angeles and Orange County — on-site at your facility or embedded in your practice.
Request consultationZero cost to SNFs and PCP clinic partners. We bill Medicare, Medi-Cal, and commercial insurance directly.
From first conversation through credentialing to our first patient visit.
Every clinical decision is traceable to the treating clinician under physician oversight.
We meet wound care need where it lives — at the bedside in skilled nursing, and in the exam room of primary care physicians who want to keep their own patients in-house.
Model A
Our nurse practitioners visit your SNF on a regular schedule. We bring the supplies, perform wound assessment and treatment at the bedside, document to the chart, and coordinate directly with your nursing staff. Zero cost to the facility.
Built for Administrators · DONs · Medical Directors
Model B
For PCPs with patients who need wound care, we embed a wound care clinician in your practice on a regular cadence. You keep your patients. They get specialized treatment without leaving your clinic. Your practice earns appropriate facility revenue where applicable.
Built for Primary Care Physicians · Internal Medicine · Family Practice
We also see referrals from home health and hospice partners where appropriate. If your setting doesn't fit either model cleanly, reach out — we can usually design a workable arrangement.
That one distinction shapes almost everything about how care is delivered — who makes the clinical decisions, why a graft gets used, how often a patient is seen, and whether anyone is personally accountable when something goes wrong.
Most wound care companies are organized as staffing or management groups, often with investor ownership and revenue targets. CHP is a California professional corporation, owned and directed by Dr. Callahan.
In rep-driven models, graft selection tracks rebate structures. At CHP, product choice, frequency, and duration are decided by the treating clinician under physician oversight — based on the wound, not the rebate.
Volume-first practices measure applications. We measure healing trajectory. Treatment stops when it is no longer medically indicated. Documentation is complete and auditable.
The 2026 CMS reforms drove many wound care operators out of Southern California mid-treatment. Our model is built around the new rules, not broken by them.
Before the 2026 CMS reforms, Medicare spending on skin substitutes ballooned into the billions and became one of the most-investigated categories in federal healthcare. The patterns behind that growth matter — because your facility is the venue where they play out.
Unnecessary applications
Wounds that could heal with standard care receive repeated cellular tissue products — sometimes weekly for months — because each application generates reimbursement.
Rep-driven product selection
Manufacturer reps pitch high-margin grafts to provider groups. Product choice follows the rebate. Federal investigators have repeatedly flagged these arrangements as kickbacks.
Upcoding and overbilling
Inflated wound measurements. Larger graft sizes billed than applied. Debridement codes stacked regardless of what was performed at the bedside.
Non-clinician ownership
When a wound care company is owned by non-clinicians, the people setting productivity expectations have no clinical license to lose.
Facility exposure
Fraudulent provider behavior inside your building can become your regulatory problem — audits and False Claims Act liability have reached facilities that hosted questionable wound care arrangements.
▸ The Integrity Pledge
Assessment through closure — by clinicians accountable to a physician and to the patient, not to a sales quota.
Diabetic foot ulcers · Venous leg ulcers · Pressure injuries · Surgical wounds · Traumatic wounds · Arterial ulcers
A short call with Dr. Callahan to understand your facility, patient population, and current wound care gap.
A straightforward agreement with no financial obligation to your facility. Reviewed by counsel on both sides.
We complete your facility's credentialing process — typically about two weeks. We handle the paperwork.
Our team is on-site on a regular schedule. You refer, we treat, outcomes are documented to the chart.
06 — Founder
We built this practice so a physician is personally responsible for clinical decisions, the documentation tells the truth, and the model doesn't reward over-treatment. The 2026 reforms didn't create that philosophy. They simply made it the only honest way to build a wound care practice.
Edward Callahan III, MD Founder & Medical Director
SNF administrators, Directors of Nursing, and physicians — reach out directly to Dr. Callahan. We will be in contact.
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