by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 7, 2020 | Healthcare Payment Policy
Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) are resuming post-payment reviews of items/services provided before March 1, 2020. The Targeted Probe and Educate program (intensive education to assess provider compliance through up to three rounds of review) will restart...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 6, 2020 | Don't Miss This
The Mysterious Case of the Ischemic Achilles There’s a case report published online in “Vascular Disease Management” that is worth some conversation. The patient underwent a dermatological procedure on the back of the left calf that involved cryotherapy. About two...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 5, 2020 | COVID-19, COVID-19 & HBOT
Check out this Associated Press article by Robin McDowell and Margie Mason on Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for COVID-19. It is available on multiple news outlets. Pass this on. –Caroline Caroline Fife, M.D.Dr. Fife is a world renowned wound care physician dedicated...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 4, 2020 | COVID-19, Dr. Marissa Carter
Guest Blog by Dr. Marissa Carter Here’s part 2 of an article by Dr. Marissa Carter about a topic I am following closely – the development of a COVID-19 vaccine. –Caroline In part I we covered the mechanics of COVID-19 vaccine trials. In part II, I will discuss...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 3, 2020 | COVID-19
Check out this photo of the small but mighty women of my Wound Clinic. We won the hospital award for “most improved numbers” since COVID. We are trying to bring our clinic program back to health. It’s also a little window on the struggle of many hospitals to survive....
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 31, 2020 | COVID-19
I feel it and so do you. Although I turned the television off a month ago, I am still reading the medical journals. I have decided not to even watch the news reports of fascist organizations taking over cities –but even the scientific news is not encouraging....
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 30, 2020 | COVID-19
Rationale, Study Design Considerations, and Protocol Recommendations for Treating COVID-19 Patients with Hyperbaric Oxygen The UHMS Research Committee has completed their “Rationale, Study Design Considerations, and Protocol Recommendations for Treating Covid-19...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 30, 2020 | COVID-19
The game “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon,” is based on the theory that nobody is more than six relationships away from any other person in the world. It was conceived in 1994 (before social media!) by students at Albright College who were watching the movie...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 28, 2020 | COVID-19
A comprehensive review of 20 years of data, recently published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, finds that U.S. vaccines are remarkably safe, thanks in part to ongoing safety surveillance after a vaccine hits the market. The authors reviewed all vaccines that were...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 27, 2020 | COVID-19, Dr. Marissa Carter
Guest Blog by Dr. Marissa Carter Here’s another fascinating article from Dr. Marissa Carter about a topic I am following closely – the development of a COVID-19 vaccine. –Caroline There are currently over 140 SARS-cov2 vaccine candidates (here’s the full list)....
