by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jan 20, 2020 | Healthcare Payment Policy
I’m re-posting these helpful instructions for finding your HCC score from a previous guest post by Dr. Helen Gelly. The importance of your HCC score cannot be overstated! To find out your HCC score for 2017 and the years prior, follow these easy steps: Step...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jan 16, 2020 | Fight the Good Fight, Healthcare Payment Policy
My friend from England has an expression she learned from her Mother, an ambulance driver during the London Blitz: “It’s a great life if you don’t weaken.” The field of wound management is in for a lot of big changes in 2020. As with anything...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jan 10, 2020 | Healthcare Payment Policy, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Check out this CMS summary regarding the HBOT prior authorization program! mpa-hbo-fnlevalrpt-fg Caroline Fife, M.D.Dr. Fife is a world renowned wound care physician dedicated to improving patient outcomes through quality driven care. Please visit my blog...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Dec 27, 2019 | Uncategorized
A year ago in December 2018, Judge Reed O’Connor, District Court judge for the Northern District of Texas, ruled that no part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) could stand after Congress passed new legislation that removed the tax penalty for NOT having insurance....
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Dec 23, 2019 | Miscellaneous Musings
Lately my posts have been – well, depressing. I blog a lot about problems that may be nearly impossible to solve. So, when my 24-year-old son told me what he was doing to celebrate Christmas, I thought I’d share it. For over 100 years, the US postal service has...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Dec 18, 2019 | Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, US Wound Registry
Nearly every week I get a question about the different registry participation options for wound care and hyperbaric medicine. We need all the data we can get in the fields of wound care and hyperbaric medicine. The thought process should not be that one approach is...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Dec 9, 2019 | Fight the Good Fight, Healthcare Payment Policy
Last week my editorial in Today’s Wound Clinic stimulated a lot of comment and I was (perhaps rightly) criticized for implying that national wound care meetings are not important. My point is that scientific meetings become a lot less relevant if Wound Management...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Dec 6, 2019 | Cellular / Tissue-Based Products, Fight the Good Fight, Healthcare Payment Policy
Re-printed from Today’s Wound Clinic We are at an important crossroads in the field of wound management. From the perspective of new technologies, the future is bright. Unfortunately, the future of the field itself is dismal. Under Medicare’s new Quality Payment...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Dec 3, 2019 | Do the Right Thing: Thoughts on Quality, Fight the Good Fight, Healthcare Payment Policy
The Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders parterned with the US Wound Registry (USWR) to develop a suite of wound care relevant quality measures. This year, 3 of those CMS approved quality measures were selected for depiction on Physician Compare. An article about this...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Dec 2, 2019 | Fight the Good Fight
A few weeks ago we began an experiment right here on this blog, taking a look at a complicated wound care case and “crowdsourcing” the diagnosis. We thought it would be fun to share some of the comments to date, along with some follow-up comments from me....
