by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 17, 2026 | Fight the Good Fight, Medicare Audits
The final MIPS reporting deadline for the 2025 performance year is March 31, 2026. In other words, you have until the last day of March to report MIPS data – that is, if you are required to report. The purpose of this article is to explain the unnecessarily...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Feb 20, 2026 | Healthcare Payment Policy, Medicare Audits
By Caroline Fife and Lindsay Horst We’ve been asking you to download your Field Test report for the “non-pressure ulcer” Cost Measure. This issue is important because in the future, CMS can claw back Medicare dollars from a wound care practitioner based on their...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 16, 2025 | Fight the Good Fight
I hear the most interesting things about when Medicare rules apply and about the requirements of the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). For example, two years ago, a doctor whose practice involved the application of CTPs/skin substitutes on patients in the...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 6, 2025 | Healthcare Payment Policy
A 2022 study in JAMA Association found that the Quality Payment Program (QPP) was “approximately as effective as chance in terms of identifying high versus low quality performance.” That’s a big “oops” when you can lose up to 9% of your Medicare billing based on your...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 30, 2025 | Healthcare Payment Policy
I know you love reading about the Merit Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) as much as I love writing about it… However, MIPS now matters to a lot more practitioners as wound care transitions into the office-based/mobile setting. (I will make a mental note to...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 12, 2025 | Healthcare Payment Policy
Millions of Instructions Per Snooze? OK, MIPS actually stands for the Merit Based Incentive Payment System. This is not an area of expertise that I wanted to acquire – but I am committed to ensuring that hard-working wound care practitioners do not lose money because...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jan 23, 2025 | Healthcare Payment Policy
Thank you to HMP for letting me create a video talk on “MIPS (Merit Based Incentive Payment System) Basics”! You can listen to or watch it here on the Today’s Wound Clinic site. An Introduction to MIPS Basics | Today’s Wound...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 4, 2024 | Fight the Good Fight, Quality Payment Program
The AMA has a series called “What’s Wrong with Medicare Physician Payment,” and 4 of the 6 points in this article address the weaknesses of the Quality Payment Program (QPP). Three of those focus around issues related to the Merit Based Incentive Payment System...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 7, 2024 | Fight the Good Fight, Quality Payment Program
I know there is “MIPS” fatigue and that for most wound care practitioners, the whole Quality Payment Program has felt irrelevant. However, this year, if you are “eligible” to report (that’s Medicare’s term for “you have to do it”) and fail to do anything about it, you...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 6, 2024 | Fight the Good Fight, Healthcare Payment Policy
Satisfying the MIPS Falls Risk Assessment Requirements | Today’s Wound Clinic (hmpgloballearningnetwork.com) More and more wound care practitioners are paying attention to the requirements of the Quality Payment Program (QPP), now that ignoring participation can...
