Patients and their families weigh in about maggot therapy and reimbursement

What do patients and their families have to say about maggot therapy and reimbursement? Read for yourself -

During 2006 my mother developed a serious pressure wound at a skilled nursing home. The best conventional care . . . was woefully deficient in debridement of the necrotic tissue to promote healing. My mother’s primary care physician gave a prescription order for the MDT therapy. I then paid Monarch Labs and . . . practitioner nurse to administer about six dressings, for a total of about $1,200. The MDT treatments were vastly more effective than the Panafill ointment used by the home care nurse program. The head home care nurse observed the MDT treatment program and became so convinced of its efficacy that she tried to implement it into her own program with much resistance from management. When I applied for reimbursement our HPO was SCAN backed by Medicare. I provided all the data requested by SCAN and nothing came of it. Lots of red tape with no reimbursement due to no code for MDT. MDT was the only effective debridement method.

Mr. D. (son), California