Dr. Marissa Carter and I have published, “Counting the Cost of Cellular and/or Tissue-Based Products in Diabetic Foot Ulcers: Is There a Justifiable Price Limit per Square Centimeter?” now available in Advances in Wound Care. Recently I asked readers to predict what would be the maximum price per cm2 of amniotic products until the new LCD(s) are implemented. Most people thought that the price could go up as high as $5,000 per cm2 as practitioners eke out all the fraudulent Medicare dollars they can.
In thinking about the dramatic (and wholly unjustifiable) price increases over the past two years, I asked myself what a CTP/skin sub would have to be able to do to be worth even $3,000 per cm2. I posed this question to Dr. Carter, and the result was the paper now available. Spoiler alert, a CTP/skin sub that expensive would need to be able to bring sight back to the blind or cure diabetes in order to justify the price.
None of this is funny anymore, is it?
–Caroline
Dr. Fife is a world renowned wound care physician dedicated to improving patient outcomes through quality driven care. Please visit my blog at CarolineFifeMD.com and my Youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/c/carolinefifemd/videos
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