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Month: October 2018

October 30, 2018 Healthcare Payment Policy / Medicare Physician Payments / Medicare Policy & Coverage

Read the Fine Print on the “Medicare for All” Plan

Medicare-for-all further emboldens the entities currently abusing Medicare. Medicare will get bigger, so waste, fraud and abuse will get bigger.

October 29, 2018 Healthcare Payment Policy / Medicare Policy & Coverage

The Coming Storm for Wound Care

If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the past ten years, it’s that people believe what they want to believe, no matter what data you show them.

October 26, 2018 Clinical Topics / Lymphedema

So Far, They Only Scoot to Maim

I have actually lost count of the scooter related foot injuries, which are not trivial in our patients.

October 25, 2018 Healthcare Payment Policy / MACs / Medicare Policy & Coverage

The 5th Amendment is Not Dead Yet – Courts Order Medicare to Stop Recouping Alleged Over-payments Without Due Process

Last month it looked like the 5th Amendment was one of the carcasses being carried out to the Monty Python leftist plague wagon, but apparently, it’s not quite dead yet.

October 23, 2018 CMS / Healthcare Payment Policy / Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) / Medicare Policy & Coverage

How to Prevent Improper Use Without Costly, Time Sucking Prior Authorization

An idea so logical there is no way CMS will try it.

October 18, 2018 Clinical Topics / Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT)

How to Fail a Medicare Audit Without Even Trying – a Cautionary Tale from the WPS Region

Not getting our daily treatment documentation correct is exactly how to fail an audit without really trying.

October 12, 2018 CMS / Healthcare Payment Policy / LCD Info / MACs / Medicare Policy & Coverage

Relief from the MAC Attacks

This is a great move forward by CMS to increase transparency to this process, and is the first changes to this process in a very long time.

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Caroline Fife, MD

Caroline Fife, MD

Dr. Fife is a world renowned wound care physician. She is the Medical Director of the Wound Care Center at CHI St. Luke's The Woodlands Hospital, Chief Medical Officer of Intellicure, Inc., Executive Director of the US Wound and US Podiatry Registries, and Founding Clinical Editor of Today's Wound Clinic.

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