by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Oct 26, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
Happy 15th Birthday Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders! No other organization provides so much bang for the buck! In addition to submitting comment letters on every policy that affects wound care, it carried out the just released Value in Health article on the cost...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Oct 23, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Quality Payment Program
Stopping Data Blocking by EHR Vendors The biggest barrier to participation in the US Wound Registry (USWR) has been data blocking (also called information blocking) by electronic health record (EHR) vendors. Data blocking endangers patients and can prevent physicians...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Oct 20, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Quality Payment Program
I’ve been blogging about debridement as it relates to the Novitas Local Coverage Determination (LCD) on Wound care issued in final form just recently. (You can find a pdf version of the LCD here). The Novitas LCD states that debridement services can be continued...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Oct 17, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
The September issue of Wounds contains a supplement called, “Management of Chronic WouWounds: Diagnosis, Preparation, Treatment and Follow-up,” supported by Acelity. It’s an amazingly comprehensive compendium of information and is available in its...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Oct 16, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
I’m tying some threads together about the Novitas Wound Care LCD and the cost of outpatient wound care. Check out the cost of chronic wound care article in Value in Health performed by the Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders and available to you here:...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Oct 13, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
I’m tying some threads together about the Novitas Wound Care LCD and the cost of outpatient wound care. I’ve been directing everyone to the Value in Health article that recently came out on the cost of chronic wound care, performed by the Alliance of Wound Care...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Oct 11, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
I have received many emails about the newly released Wound Care Local Coverage Determination (LCD) released by Novitas, the Medicare Administrative Carrier (MAC) for the following states: Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi,...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Oct 9, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Quality Payment Program
…and how truthful reporting of healing rates could save the field of wound care In 2016, the quality data of all the physicians participating in the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) became publicly available for the first time on the CMS Physician...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Oct 4, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
I’d like to frame a discussion about the cost of chronic wound care, through the lens of a wonderful patient. She’s an 80 yo woman with severe peripheral arterial disease and chronic limb ischemia who had already had multiple endovascular interventions in her legs....
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Sep 28, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
Here’s the good news- this patient had a limb threatening diabetic foot ulcer that might be the deepest and biggest lesion I have ever treated with a total contact cast, and it healed. However, I had to keep her in the TCC while we waited for the paperwork from...
