by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 7, 2025 | Fight the Good Fight
“According to the United States’ complaint, Vohra and Dr. Vohra knowingly engaged in a nationwide scheme to falsely bill Medicare for surgical debridement procedures to maximize revenue.” The complaint alleges that the defendants pursued their fraudulent scheme...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 4, 2025 | Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
In the wake of the tragic hyperbaric chamber fire that killed a 5-year-old child, there is much discussion about hyperbaric chamber safety. Several people who messaged me were shocked and worried that three people who operated the facility have been charged with...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 2, 2025 | Pyoderma Gangrenosum
If you have a patient with pyoderma gangrenosum (PG), also tell them about the Boehringer Ingelheim(BI) PG registry being conducted by United BioSource, LLC. As wound care practitioners know, PG is not well understood and there is currently no standardized therapy for...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 31, 2025 | Pyoderma Gangrenosum
If you are a wound care practitioner, I guarantee that you have seen pyoderma gangrenosum (PG). And no matter how attuned you are to the disease, I guarantee you have missed some — because I have. The number of “head slap” moments I have had about PG is...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 28, 2025 | Cellular / Tissue-Based Products, CTP / Skin Substitutes
Welcome to the Circus: The State of Healthcare in America | medicaidlaw-nc Attorney Knicole Emanuel has another blog post (yes, I am a big fan of her blog) about Medicare audits. She describes “compliance” as a “Kafkaesque masterpiece of government regulation.” The...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 26, 2025 | Fight the Good Fight
A recently published study using electronic medical records has suggested that a prescription for the GLP-1 receptor agonist (RA) Semaglutide is associated with a decreased risk of wound healing complications, chronic non-healing “wounds,” pain, treatment for wound...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 24, 2025 | Medicare Audits
Here’s a guest blog from Michael Crouch, following up on Martha Kelso’s post about audit requirements. I hope the information from these industry experts will help practitioners prepare themselves better for the audits that are bound to happen. If you have been...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 21, 2025 | Fight the Good Fight, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
In January, a 5-year-old boy was killed in a monoplace hyperbaric chamber fire in Michigan. Now three people who operated the facility have been charged with second-degree murder. In response to the tragedy, Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS) president Dr....
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 19, 2025 | Fight the Good Fight
Check out Knicole Emanuel’s recent blog post about CMS monetary recoupment before full adjudication. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has the authority to recoup alleged overpayments from healthcare providers before the full adjudication of an...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 18, 2025 | Cellular / Tissue-Based Products, CTP / Skin Substitutes, Medicare Audits
Here’s a guest blog from Martha Kelso, Chief Regulatory Officer at Wound Care Plus, LLC, providing a heads-up about the documentation demands for her most recent audit of CTPs/CAMPs/skin substitutes – this time a UPIC audit. According to the Medicare Program Integrity...
