by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 8, 2026 | Cellular / Tissue-Based Products, CTP / Skin Substitutes
Check out attorney Knicole Emanuel’s recent blog post, written to wound care practitioners, “Medicare Auditors Are Not Wound Care Specialists: Why Providers Win Appeals When the Full Story Finally Gets Read”! Her post reinforces the reports I am hearing,...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 3, 2026 | Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Every day, wound care practitioners see patients with life- and limb-threatening wounds. It’s a highly diverse group of patients because there’s almost no limit to the awful things that can happen to a person such as crush injuries, severe open fractures, amputations...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 1, 2026 | Fight the Good Fight, Miscellaneous Musings
I must have been absent from medical school the day we learned about dystonia because there is a big blank space in my memory where any knowledge of that disorder should be. I didn’t know anything about it until two decades after medical school when my Mary, my dear...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 29, 2026 | Fight the Good Fight
Starting July 1, 2026, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas (BCBSTX) will “enhance” its claims editing and review process for office, inpatient, and outpatient evaluation and management (E/M) services for patients in commercial BCBSTX plans. For dates of service on or...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 18, 2026 | Cellular / Tissue-Based Products, CTP / Skin Substitutes
Last month, Dr. Ryan Mathis updated us on the legal initiative around CAMP (skin sub/CTP) pricing. The case, filed in the district court of the Northern District of Texas, was dismissed — not because the companies lost on the merits, but because the judge said...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 12, 2026 | Fight the Good Fight
Dr. Fife, Thank you for the wonderful blog post by Drs. Melin and team: “Wrestling Armadillos”. I could not agree more on all points! I want to emphasize this statement: “…’the underlying reason for chronic wounds may be systemic’, a...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 1, 2026 | Fight the Good Fight
The disconnect between the subjects enrolled in prospective clinical trials and patients in the real world has been an issue of concern for years. Dr. Marissa Carter and I first published on this in 2009 Advances in Skin & Wound Care. To over-simplify the problem...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 24, 2026 | Fight the Good Fight
One of the things that makes wound care fascinating is that just when you think you have seen it all – you haven’t. I have only seen one case of leprosy in my 35+ career. Even though it is rare, we do see cases of leprosy in the southern US. And, growing up in Texas,...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 24, 2026 | Cellular / Tissue-Based Products, CTP / Skin Substitutes
Guest Blog by Michael Crouch Dr. Fife – Like you, I follow the blog of well-known healthcare attorney, Knicole Emanuel, and her recent post “The End of Chevron Deference: How Loper Bright Could Help Defendants Challenge Materiality in False Claims Act Cases |...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 22, 2026 | Nutrition & Wound Healing
I have watched many patients suffering from months of chronic non-healing wounds completely heal within a few weeks of normalizing their Vitamin D-25 levels (a treatment which cost about $10). The list of benefits of Vitamin D continues to grow and now includes a...
