by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 2, 2015 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
Tuesdays in the month of June, I’d like to have some straight talk about a few of the MANY ways in which payment for hyperbaric oxygen therapy is going to change and FAST. All payers, commercial and Medicare/Medicaid are establishing specific criteria for hyperbaric...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 1, 2015 | Cassandra Chronicles: Regulatory and Coverage Policy, Miscellaneous Musings, Pressure Cooker: Rethinking Pressure Ulcers, US Wound Registry
Last month I focused on healthcare reform initiatives focused on how quality measures will be front and center in the move from volume based care to value based care by CMS. Performance on quality measures is also going to be used to determine physician compensation...