by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 23, 2018 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
Seventy years ago, Life magazine published a photograph essay depicting two weeks in the life of Dr. Ernest Ceriani, a general practitioner in Colorado. The images of his 1948 rural practice are riveting. He delivers babies, performs trauma surgery, practices...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 18, 2018 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
Last night the students at the George Bush school of government held a candlelight vigil in honor of late First Lady, Barbara Bush. http://bush.tamu.edu/ The Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University was founded in 1997, under...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 12, 2018 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Quality Payment Program
Re-posted with permission from Today’s Wound Clinic. Have you ever heard of a surgeon offering a warranty on a procedure? I can hardly get a warranty on a home appliance repair. A warranty is not the legal term for what Geisinger offers patients after a hip...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 9, 2018 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
I will be speaking at the TexMed Wound Care Conference on May 19, 2018. Be sure to join us for this important educational event! You can register by clicking on this link. Caroline Fife, M.D.Dr. Fife is a world renowned wound care physician dedicated to improving...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 5, 2018 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
QualityLast month, I attended the annual National Quality Forum Conference in Washington, DC. This year’s theme was: Fulfilling The Quality Mandate – Are We Closer To Safer, More Effective, and Affordable Care? A major theme was that of racial disparities in care. I...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 28, 2018 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
In February 2018, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a report entitled “WISCONSIN PHYSICIANS SERVICE PAID PROVIDERS FOR HYPERBARIC OXYGEN THERAPY SERVICES THAT DID NOT COMPLY WITH MEDICARE REQUIREMENTS.” The OIG evaluated the region under the...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 27, 2018 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Quality Payment Program
There’s a scene in “Men in Black” where Jay panics about a looming crisis, but Kay tells him that there’s always an intergalactic plague threatening to destroy the earth, and that the only way people get on with life is if they don’t know about it. Truthfully, the...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 22, 2018 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, The Patient's Voice
About 13 years ago, one of my children developed a serious medical illness and I took several months off to be a full time caregiver. I wasn’t sure I’d be able to go back to practicing medicine. I was pretty depressed about the whole situation when I decided to try...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 14, 2018 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
It’s hard to believe it’s been 20 years since I was president of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS). I thought my biggest challenge would be trying develop an approach to off-label use of HBOT. As it turned out, only weeks after I took office,...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 6, 2018 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
Lately we’ve noticed that for patients seen in our wound center, Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) has been denying reimbursement for Evaluation and Management (E&M) services if they are billed on the same day as a procedure, despite the use of a modifier 25 to...
