by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jan 25, 2024 | Fight the Good Fight
On Tuesday, January 30th at 12:00 pm ET, the Amputation Prevention Alliance will host a webinar, Preventing Diabetes-Related Amputations: Missed Opportunities in the Patient Care Journey. The Webinar is being released in conjunction with the American Diabetes...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jan 25, 2024 | Fight the Good Fight, Healthcare Payment Policy
There’s no way to hide the awful fact that I will be 65 in March. I might as well admit it here since apparently, every insurance company and retailer know it – based on the quantity of junk mail that fills my mailbox with “CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR 65TH BIRTHDAY!”...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jan 24, 2024 | Fight the Good Fight
Recently, I was a guest on the MicroGenDx Mic’d Up podcast, hosted by Rick Martin, CEO of MicroGenDX. We chatted about cases in which MicroGenDx had made a difference in the management of some chronic wound patients – as well as some cases in which the results told me...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jan 23, 2024 | Cellular / Tissue-Based Products, CTP / Skin Substitutes, Fight the Good Fight
Medicare updates compared to inflation chart (Cumulative) (ama-assn.org) Physicians’ Medicare payments were cut 3.37% on Jan. 1, 2024, on top of a 2% cut that that occurred last year. In total, Medicare physician pay has fallen 26% since 2001 (inflation-adjusted...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jan 19, 2024 | Cellular / Tissue-Based Products, CTP / Skin Substitutes, Fight the Good Fight
Many thanks to Sharon Hannan, Executive VP of Integumetrix, for her insightful reaction to this article. –Caroline Dr. Fife, As a previous Director of Wound and HBO services at a major hospital system, I can attest to the inaccuracies of hospital financial data...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jan 18, 2024 | Fight the Good Fight
This is a 72 year old woman who is non-ambulatory and spends the day zooming around in her electric scooter. She lost control of the scooter and rammed her right anterior shin into piece of furniture at a high rate of speed about a week before presenting to the wound...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jan 12, 2024 | Dr. Helen Gelly, Fight the Good Fight, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Guest Post by Dr. Helen Gelly A new paper has been published open source in Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine (UHM) about physician supervision of hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT). You can access the paper ahead of print here: Trends in Physician Supervision of...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jan 11, 2024 | Fight the Good Fight, Quality Payment Program
The list of all CMS-approved Qualified Clinical Data Registries (QCDRs) has been posted. These QCDRs have been approved by CMS to participate in reporting QCDR measures and/or MIPS (Merit Based Incentive Payment System) quality measures, PI (Promoting...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jan 9, 2024 | Fight the Good Fight
Both scientific data and my own clinical experience tell me that the root cause of many chronic wound problems is obesity (and all the downstream health problems related to obesity such as diabetes, sleep apnea and edema). For decades I have been trying to figure out...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jan 8, 2024 | Fight the Good Fight, US Wound Registry
The list of all CMS approved Qualified Clinical Data Registries (QCDRs) has been posted. These QCDRs have been approved by CMS to participate in reporting QCDR measures and/or MIPS (Merit Based Incentive Payment System) quality measures, PI (Promoting...
