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...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jan 5, 2024 | Fight the Good Fight, US Wound Registry
Check out the list of quality measures approved by CMS for 2024 MIPS reporting through the US Wound Registry Qualified Clinical Data Registry (QCDR) and stay tuned for more information! (Whoever says we don’t have an accepted standard of care in wound management is...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Dec 27, 2023 | Cellular / Tissue-Based Products, CTP / Skin Substitutes, Fight the Good Fight
JAMA just released an editorial about the impact of greed on the US healthcare system. I want to be very clear about the fact that I am devoted to the free market. If history and human psychology teach us anything, it is the value of a free market economy. With the...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Dec 22, 2023 | Fight the Good Fight, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Here’s some welcome news hot off the press from John Peters, the Executive Director of the UHMS! –Caroline Dear Caroline, Thank you for inviting me again to contribute an update on the 2024 HOPD G0277 final error. Yesterday afternoon, we received notification...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Dec 21, 2023 | Fight the Good Fight
Since it seems that EVERYONE is being audited (particularly about hyperbaric oxygen and the use of CTPs/skin subs), this Webinar might be useful. I don’t pretend to understand the details but I know that what CMS thinks is a statistical sample of data is far from...
