About Dr. Fife
Dr. Fife is a world-renowned wound care physician. She is the CMO of Intellicure, Inc., Exec. Director of the US Wound Registry & Editor of Today’s Wound Clinic.
Report Honest Healing Rates
It’s time for Wound Care physicians and providers to stand up for truly honest outcomes and transparent quality reporting. If we don’t we may see our entire profession wiped out. Click here to read more.
Guide to the Lymphatic System
A series of articles to summarize more than two decades of work in lymphatic imaging. Click here to read more.
Latest Posts
What We Could Learn from our Cardiology Colleagues
“Research, Not Rebates!” How to Get Cellular Tissue Product Patient Referrals from SNF Directors of Nursing (DONs) & How to Pitch “Research” to Medicare Patients
Medicare’s Quality Payment Program vs. Wound Care Practitioners
The Accountable Care Organizations are Watching…
Warning – Don’t Watch This Unless You Want to See How Stage 4 Pressure Ulcers Form From the Inside Out…
Get that Skin Substitute “Clawback Insurance!”
Can Losing Weight Help Protect Obese People from Serious Infection?
My Thankfuls
What a Patient Wishes Her Wound Care Doctor Knew About Home IV Therapy
How Do We Feel About Robin Hood Wound Care?
“I’ve Consistently Been Told the Answer is Yes… At Least, I Hope it’s Yes — Otherwise, We’re All in Trouble.”
In Honor of National Physician Suicide Awareness Day – Message a Physician Friend or Colleague and Tell Them You Appreciate Them
What Claims Can an Amniotic “Skin Substitute” Sales Rep Make?
Cellular Tissue Products (CTP) / Skin Substitutes with No ASP – How Does That Work?
After Nov. 18th, BCBS of Texas Will Require Consultations Billed with E/M Codes Representing Location & Complexity
Help! Can Someone Explain if Accepting Discounts Below the Cellular Tissue Product / Skin Substitute Average Sales Price (ASP) is Legal?
You Only THINK You Aren’t Being Audited by Medicare… Check Again
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) has Released a Consensus Definition of Long COVID
Has Anyone Noticed That the Proposed LCD Limits Cellular Tissue Products / Skin Substitutes to Only Superficial, Clean, Granulated wounds? (Which is Not New…)
Why is it Still So Hard to Do the Right Thing in Wound Care??? A Guest Blog by Dr. Lee Routsi
A Long Ago Case of Cutaneous Cryptococcus – That Looked Like No Big Deal
Is There a Doctor/Nurse on the Plane?
Noridian DME MAC Issues an “Update” on the Surgical Dressing Policy (Which May Be Just a Reminder Not to Write Stupid DME Orders for Wound Dressings…)
Why Aren’t Patients Up in Arms About Huge Copays for Cellular Tissue Products (CTPs) / Skin Substitutes?
Check Out This Paper on the Effect of a New, Automated Manual Lymphatic Drainage Therapy Device – There are Links to Downloadable Videos of the Lymphatics Pumping in Real Time!
Hospitals at Home? Caregivers are Already Doing This…
A Case of Pyoderma Gangrenosum Successfully Treated with Vilobelimab (the COVID Antibody)
The opinions, comments, and content expressed or implied in my statements are solely my own and do not necessarily reflect the position or views of Intellicure or any of the boards on which I serve.