by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 26, 2024 | Fight the Good Fight, Quiz / Survey
Create your own user feedback survey Caroline Fife, M.D.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...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 24, 2024 | Cellular / Tissue-Based Products, CTP / Skin Substitutes
Dr. Fife, I wanted to illustrate how an office-based doctor using Cellular Tissue Products / Skin Substitutes is often unable to cover the cost of this treatment – if they follow the Medicare rules. At the very least, in many cases, I wanted to illustrate why an...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 23, 2024 | Fight the Good Fight
I read this fascinating and inspiring interview in JAMA written by a neurologist whose Alzheimer’s was diagnosed 8 years ago. Although he is now retired from practice, Dr. Daniel Gibbs continues to teach about Alzheimer disease through his writing and speaking...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 22, 2024 | Dr. Helen Gelly, Fight the Good Fight
Physicians have watched their inflation-adjusted Medicare payments decline 26% from 2001 to 2023, because practitioners are just about the only entity whose reimbursement is NOT tied to inflation. Physicians in all specialties agree that the current Medicare physician...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 19, 2024 | Cellular / Tissue-Based Products, CTP / Skin Substitutes
District of Arizona | Seven Charged in Arizona as Part of the Department of Justice’s 2024 National Health Care Fraud Enforcement Action | United States Department of Justice The fallout continues from the indictments of Alexandra Gehrke and Jeffrey King on charges of...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 18, 2024 | Events
Join me and 80+ CLI specialists in Chicago, August 14-17, to learn about the latest advances in revascularization and explore groundbreaking techniques that will improve the future of CLI patients. Learn more & secure your...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 18, 2024 | Fight the Good Fight, Miscellaneous Musings, Nutrition & Wound Healing
A 5:2 Intermittent Fasting Meal Replacement Diet and Glycemic Control for Adults With Diabetes: The EARLY Randomized Clinical Trial | Diabetes and Endocrinology | JAMA Network Open | JAMA Network A study published open access in JAMA suggests that an intermittent...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 17, 2024 | Cellular / Tissue-Based Products, CTP / Skin Substitutes, Dr. Marissa Carter
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...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 12, 2024 | Cellular / Tissue-Based Products, CTP / Skin Substitutes
Thank you for participating in the poll to guess how ridiculously high amniotic prices will go. It looks like $5000 per cm may be the winner of this perverse method of helping to bankrupt Medicare and line the pockets of unscrupulous practitioners! I will keep you...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 11, 2024 | Cellular / Tissue-Based Products, CTP / Skin Substitutes
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the proposed rule for the 2025 Medicare physician fee schedule (PFS). The big question in our field was whether CMS would start “package pricing” CTPs/skin subs in the physician office. They didn’t –...
