by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Dec 9, 2020 | COVID-19, Dr. Marissa Carter
Dr. Carter has a new post on the origins of COVID-19 on her website. It’s a fascinating read. –Caroline 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 9, 2020 | Healthcare Payment Policy, Quality Payment Program
CMS is conducting Webinars on the Final Rules of the Quality Payment Program and the Physician Schedule – starting today! 1. Register for the December 9 Overview of the 2021 Quality Payment Program Final Rule Webinar 2:00 – 3:30 pm eastern The Centers for...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Dec 8, 2020 | COVID-19
A good friend of mine is British and lives in the United Kingdom. She sent me an interesting email this morning. Since the advent of COVID-19, we have compared notes on the differences and similarities of the pandemic on both sides of the pond. I grant you that this...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Dec 8, 2020 | Do the Right Thing: Thoughts on Quality, Fight the Good Fight, Healthcare Payment Policy
I understand why companies develop products for diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) and venous leg ulcers (VLUs), even though those are NOT the most common wound problems. It’s because the clinical trials needed to satisfy the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are well...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Dec 7, 2020 | Healthcare Payment Policy
It happened again. Someone asked me if it was possible to use real world data for a comparative effectiveness study in wound care. There was a fantastic presentation on this topic given in 2016 at ISPOR (the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Dec 3, 2020 | COVID-19, Miscellaneous Musings
I don’t know about you, but I could use a laugh. I was considering putting a Prozac salt lick in the kitchen when a colleague sent me a link to an article about a bra that can be transformed into two facemasks. “The Emergency Bra can be transformed into two...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Dec 2, 2020 | Healthcare Payment Policy, Quality Payment Program
Deadlines are approaching for Physicians to submit hardship exemption paperwork to CMS. Depending on your situation, requesting an exemption could spare you penalties under MIPS. I will be the first to admit that this process is darn confusing when it’s business as...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Dec 1, 2020 | COVID-19, COVID-19 & HBOT, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Check out this news article about HBOT being used to avoid intubation in severely ill COVID-19 patients at Grenwich Hospital in Connecticut. “They’re constantly panting for air, breathing at about 45 to 50 breaths per minute… But once in the chamber, patients...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Nov 25, 2020 | COVID-19
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. The very first Thanksgiving followed a period of truly terrible trials for the Mayflower survivors. A large percentage of the original passengers had died of hunger and disease, and their lives were still difficult. Artist conceptions of the...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Nov 24, 2020 | Fight the Good Fight, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
The Sagol Center for Hyperbaric Medicine and Research, Shamir (Assaf-Harofeh) Medical Center in Israel has just published a new study indicating that hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) has “senolytic” (anti-aging) effects. The study is reported ahead of print in the...
