by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 26, 2023 | Fight the Good Fight
This is a young woman with Rheumatoid Arthritis. She required a total knee replacement, and the surgical wound just fell apart. Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) was started, but the foam just fell out of the wound without creating any visible change in the wound...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 22, 2023 | Fight the Good Fight
More than a decade ago I was in Washington, D.C. at the annual National Quality Forum (NQF) meeting when the winner of the prestigious John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award was announced. Named after the former administrator for the Agency of Healthcare...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 20, 2023 | Fight the Good Fight, The Patient's Voice
On your way home, instead of NPR or the depressing news, listen to this uplifting and fascinating podcast that Brian McCurdy of HMP and I did with Morgan Wells. If you’d prefer to read the transcript, you can find it here. PODCASTS Helping The Patient Throughout A...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 16, 2023 | Fight the Good Fight
Check out the Today’s Wound Clinic guest editorial written by my friend and colleague, Monique Abner, MD about implicit bias, Wrestling With Implicit Bias to Deliver Better Care for Our Patients. I have been thinking a lot about bias since I started going to doctor’s...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 15, 2023 | Fight the Good Fight
Check out this fascinating article by my friend and colleague, Tom Bozzuto, DO published in Today’s Wound Clinic about “Herbal Treatments for Diabetic Foot Ulcers.” I have never heard of mountain papaya, maritime pine or marigolds being used for wound healing so I...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 13, 2023 | Fight the Good Fight
CGS*, one of the Medicare Administrative Carriers (MACs) has released a quarterly status report on it’s “pre pay” review for surgical dressings. This “pre-pay” review is a major reason it has become so difficult to get wound dressings for patients. The most common...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 9, 2023 | Fight the Good Fight
For almost two decades, I have had the privilege of working with Dr. Eva Sevick and Dr. John Rasmussen who developed real-time lymphatic imaging with indocyanine green. We’ve just published a review paper summarizing what we’ve learned about the function (and...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 1, 2023 | Healthcare Payment Policy
There’s a reason that CMS is talking about “package pricing” of CTPs (aka “skin substitutes”) in the doctor’s office. Proposed policies from CMS do not come out of nowhere. CMS notes changes in the volume of claims and then tackles those changes with policies. The...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 25, 2023 | Fight the Good Fight
Brian McCurdy, the Managing Editor of Today’s Wound Clinic, and I talked about a project we are working on to elevate the patient’s voice in wound care. Just prior to shooting this video, Brian and I interviewed Morgan McCoy about her journey (watch for that link...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 17, 2023 | Fight the Good Fight
At the recent SAWC, we celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders. I’ve had the incredible privilege of co-chairing the Alliance just about since its inception. This video takes a walk down memory lane about all those visits to the...
