by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Oct 20, 2023 | Cellular / Tissue-Based Products, CTP / Skin Substitutes
Check out the entire series here. “We cannot solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them.” — Albert Einstein I previously posted the list of issues as I see them in this industry. Now I’d like to create a list of the attributes of a good...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Oct 19, 2023 | Cellular / Tissue-Based Products, CTP / Skin Substitutes
Check out the entire series here. “A problem well stated is a problem half solved.” –John Dewey Thank you to everyone who has provided information or answers about this important issue. After reading your emails and messages on social media, it’s clear that...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Oct 18, 2023 | Cellular / Tissue-Based Products, CTP / Skin Substitutes
I have talked about this issue before, but now that the new LCDs governing Cellular and/or Tissue-Based Products (CTPs/skin subs) have been withdrawn (and while we wait to see what the MACs and CMS will do next), maybe it’s worth bringing up again. The use of CTPs has...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Oct 17, 2023 | Cellular / Tissue-Based Products, CTP / Skin Substitutes, Fight the Good Fight
I previously posted this ad from Linked in which has since been taken down. At the time, I thought it was some kind of joke. However, in the past few weeks, the way in which practitioners can make huge profits off the cost of a product has been explained to me. That...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Oct 16, 2023 | Cellular / Tissue-Based Products, CTP / Skin Substitutes, Fight the Good Fight
…With a Question About the per CM Sq. Price Variations for Products Check out the entire series here. I am in the Novitas Medicare Jurisdiction and I keep an eye on their Medicare Newsletter. Here are the instructions for submitting claims for CTPs/skin subs...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Oct 13, 2023 | Cellular / Tissue-Based Products, CTP / Skin Substitutes, Fight the Good Fight
Check out the entire series here. I know this story qualifies as hearsay. I could provide the names of the companies involved, but I can’t afford the legal bills. Since I can’t provide the details, you don’t know whether to believe me, but here goes: A doctor called...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Oct 12, 2023 | Cellular / Tissue-Based Products, CTP / Skin Substitutes, Fight the Good Fight
Check out the entire series here. In 2015, CMS moved to “package pricing” for CTPs/skin subs in the hospital-based outpatient clinic. When that happened, the cost of the product was incorporated into the charge for the visit, and that caused a sudden and dramatic...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Oct 11, 2023 | Cellular / Tissue-Based Products, CTP / Skin Substitutes
Check out the entire series here. Dr. Fife, I have been following your posts about CTPs. I work in a city where most wound providers are not wound certified, they debride every wound they see, they can’t stage a pressure injury, they know very little if anything...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Oct 10, 2023 | Cellular / Tissue-Based Products, CTP / Skin Substitutes, Fight the Good Fight
Check out the entire series here. Here’s another message that I agreed to post anonymously that asks many questions we are asking: Why are two products made in the same tissue lab and identical as far as any of us can tell, priced completely differently, with one of...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Oct 9, 2023 | Cellular / Tissue-Based Products, CTP / Skin Substitutes, Fight the Good Fight
Check out the entire series here. Dr. Fife, I thought you should see this advertisement for “research” with CTPs/skin subs. It’s not an isolated case. Many of them are doing this where the MACs have cracked down on Rebate programs, particularly in nursing...
