by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 28, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, Quality Payment Program
I’ve attached a link to a Kaiser Health News article that came out today (June 28) about Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) that is less than flattering, and another in the Washington Post printed yesterday by the same author. Some of the battles we face in...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 15, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Quality Payment Program
In 2011, we published a paper entitled, “Why is it hard to do the right thing in wound care?” in which we documented that only 17% of venous ulcers were treated with adequate compression every time they were seen at a wound center. Those statistics were...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 7, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Attention Hyperbaric Medicine Colleagues, especially those in New Jersey, Michigan and Illinois! Please read the important note below from UHMS Executive Director, John Peters. Dear Hyperbaric Medicine Practitioner, The Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society (UHMS)...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 31, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
ALERT! “Targeted” Pre-payment review of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy to occur in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska The Medicare Administrative Carrier “WPS” has announced a Targeted Medical Review (TMR) of 100 claims for hyperbaric oxygen therapy in the states of...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 17, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
If you haven’t yet considered subscribing to the Email Updates from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, then it’s time you did! In their latest update (#4): If you are the victim of ransomware or have cyber threat...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 15, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Quality Payment Program
You have until March 2018 to submit data. If you are subject to MIPS and do nothing, you will lose 4% of your Medicare Part B payments (although you will not experience this penalty until 2019). Click on the website below and enter your National Provider Identifier...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 12, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
Wow! This is a great article from Janet Wolfson PT, CLWT, CWS, CLT-LANA as published on April 26, 2017 by Wound Source. I was recently listening to one of my favorite news sources, NPR, enjoying an interview with James E. Ryan, the author of “Wait, What?...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 11, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
May is mental health awareness month. Everyone reading this blog has been personally affected by a mental health issue either because they have struggled personally or an immediate family member has been affected. An April JAMA article references a new World Health...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 10, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
This is another installment of the Peripheral Arterial Disease Hall of Shame. You may be getting tired of these cases, but since I see at least one a month, I think I will just keep adding to the Hall of Shame. This woman is in her late 80’s and has moderate dementia....
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 3, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Skin Perfusion Pressure (SPP)
This is another installment in my “Peripheral Arterial Disease Hall of Shame” The photo is a 50ish woman with diabetes and a history of smoking. A right femoral popliteal bypass was performed 3 months earlier. Unfortunately she developed a graft infection...
