by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Nov 26, 2021 | Healthcare Payment Policy
Last week I enjoyed a relaxed, unscripted conversation with Dr. Helen Gelly about trends in wound care audits and charge denials, with a live audience Q&A. You can watch the recording of the conversation and Q&A below. You can also find the audio of this event...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Nov 22, 2021 | Miscellaneous Musings
I read Nathaniel Philbrick’s book Mayflower and it’s the antidote to self-pity if you need to snap out of it at Thanksgiving. We forget that when the Pilgrims celebrated Thanksgiving, what they were thankful for was just being ALIVE. I’d like to focus on different...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Nov 19, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight
My beautiful 96 year old mother is cooking Thanksgiving dinner for our small family, and even drove herself to the grocery store to do the shopping. Although she is likely to be around another decade, she’s given us all very specific instructions on how to refer to...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Nov 19, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight, Shin Radiation Madness
For years I have been talking about the complications of shin radiation in elderly patients. The patients all underwent radiation for skin cancer having been told that since they were old and had “circulation issues”, radiation was a better option than undergoing a...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Nov 18, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight, Shin Radiation Madness
For years I have been talking about the complications of shin radiation in elderly patients. The patients all underwent radiation for skin cancer having been told that since they were old and had “circulation issues”, radiation was a better option than undergoing a...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Nov 17, 2021 | Healthcare Payment Policy
Friday, November 19th at 4:00PM EST Join a friendly, unscripted conversation between long-time friends and wound care industry influencers Dr. Caroline Fife and Dr. Helen Gelly as they discuss charge denial and audit trends affecting wound practices across the nation...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Oct 21, 2021 | Fight the Good Fight
In this blog preview of my upcoming WoundCon Fall 2021 presentation, I propose the angiosome concept as a mechanism for “inside-out” pressure injury development. — Caroline Most clinicians know that some pressure injuries happen from the inside out because...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Oct 20, 2021 | Nutrition & Wound Healing
Please join me on November 4, 2021 from 3:00 – 4:00 PM ET for a webinar entitled “Immunonutrition and Wounds.” Objectives: Describe wound prevalence and cost among Medicare beneficiaries State the specialized nutritional recommendations from...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Oct 19, 2021 | Healthcare Payment Policy
I’ve mentioned that am a huge fan of Knicole Manuel. You should check out her latest blog post about Targeted Probe and Educate (TPE) audits. The various Medicare regions were hitting wound care and hyperbaric medicine physicians/hospitals hard with TPEs prior to...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Oct 15, 2021 | Miscellaneous Musings
Are you feeling a little sorry for yourself today? You probably have good reasons. How is self-pity working out as a coping mechanism? If you’d like to try a different approach, I know someone who can show you how. One of my heroes informed me that today is national...
