Diabetic Wound Care That Delivers in Fort Collins, CO

How Fort Collins is not Florida First Coast

Fort Collins is a city under 250k (169,810 Census). CDC PLACES (2023, crude) estimates 6.2% of adults in Fort Collins have diagnosed diabetes — 5.8 points below the U.S. 12% figure. Adult arthritis here is 19.3% (CDC PLACES 2023, crude). That is the joint-pain backdrop for PRP and orthobiologics — not a promise that every arthritic knee is a candidate. Keep 361 tissue, autologous PRP, and skin substitutes on different tickets. We onboard against that split — then ship.

Cash PRP and Medicare CTPs in the same hallway

• CDC PLACES (2023, crude) estimates 6.2% of adults in Fort Collins have diagnosed diabetes — 5.8 points below the U.S. 12% figure. Adult obesity in Fort Collins is 23.8% (CDC PLACES 2023). That shows up in wound offloading and in joint-preservation volume — not as a slogan. A CTP without offloading and serial measurements still fails JH review. Product is the last step, not the first.
• Colorado is outside CDC's historical Diabetes Belt core, but the national 12% diabetes figure still applies as a planning baseline until a clinic uses its own payer mix. Clinics asking for regenerative inventory still have to separate HCT/P 361 homologous-use products from unapproved “stem cell” claims (FDA 21 CFR 1271).
• A city under 250k usually means mixed payer mix: Medicare FFS under JH, Medicare Advantage, workers’ comp, and cash-pay sports medicine. One SKU list rarely serves all four without a utilization policy.

Payer geography for Fort Collins, CO

JH reviewers still want serial wound measurements and conservative-care history before CTPs, whether diabetes in Fort Collins is 6.2% or not. PLACES is planning data. The LCD is the claim.

Before the first diabetic wound care shipment