by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 11, 2024 | Fight the Good Fight
I need your help. If you are a wound care practitioner, I need you to follow the instructions on my blog and download your “Non-pressure ulcer” Field Test report and have a look at it. I know that you are already thinking, “blah blah blah” and I don’t blame you....
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 7, 2024 | Fight the Good Fight, Quality Payment Program
I know there is “MIPS” fatigue and that for most wound care practitioners, the whole Quality Payment Program has felt irrelevant. However, this year, if you are “eligible” to report (that’s Medicare’s term for “you have to do it”) and fail to do anything about it, you...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 6, 2024 | Fight the Good Fight, Healthcare Payment Policy
Satisfying the MIPS Falls Risk Assessment Requirements | Today’s Wound Clinic (hmpgloballearningnetwork.com) More and more wound care practitioners are paying attention to the requirements of the Quality Payment Program (QPP), now that ignoring participation can...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 5, 2024 | Fight the Good Fight
I need your help. If you are a wound care practitioner, I need you to follow the instructions on my blog and download your “Non-pressure ulcer” Field Test report and have a look at it. I know that reading about this issue is like taking an Ambien, but stick with me...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 4, 2024 | Fight the Good Fight
I had the great fun of chatting with physician leaders from the Baptist Memorial Healthcare Corporation about pressure ulcers/injuries on their “Connecting the Dots” podcast. We talked about my somewhat iconoclastic (but evidence-based) views about pressure...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Feb 29, 2024 | Fight the Good Fight
I am a huge fan of attorney Knicole Emanuel’s blog and her most recent post is directly relevant to the field of wound care. Check out what she has to say about the anticipated increase in Medicare audit activity around pneumonic compression devices (PCDs). In the...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Feb 27, 2024 | Fight the Good Fight
Field Test Reports on the “non-pressure ulcer” cost measure became available on the Quality Payment Program (QPP) website February 1. If you are a wound care practitioner, you almost surely have a report waiting for you to download. WE NEED AS MANY WOUND CARE...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Feb 27, 2024 | Fight the Good Fight
The American Medical Association’ (AMA) has a series called, “What Doctors Wish Patients Knew™ which provides physicians with a platform to share what they want patients to understand about today’s health care headlines. (Frankly, I think the wound care community...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Feb 12, 2024 | Fight the Good Fight
Dr. Fife, Recently I was interviewing a WOCN nurse for an inpatient wound care position. The nurse told me that at her previous hospital, she performed bedside surgical wound debridements in hospitalized patients (e.g., 11042) and reported the CPT code to be included...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Feb 9, 2024 | Fight the Good Fight
I just read an article in the American Medical Association (AMA) news focused on residency training that identified “8 traits that make great doctors.” The author, Ami DeWaters, MD, explained that when assessing their own competency, resident physicians (probably like...
