by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 4, 2024 | Fight the Good Fight, Quality Payment Program
The AMA has a series called “What’s Wrong with Medicare Physician Payment,” and 4 of the 6 points in this article address the weaknesses of the Quality Payment Program (QPP). Three of those focus around issues related to the Merit Based Incentive Payment System...
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. | Jan 26, 2024 | Fight the Good Fight, Quality Payment Program
The data submission period for Medicare’s Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) 2023 performance year is underway, and closes April 1 at 7 pm CT. At stake is a pay cut of up to 9% in the 2025 payment year. MIPS-eligible physicians and health professionals must...
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. | Feb 2, 2023 | Healthcare Payment Policy, Quality Payment Program
I suspect that most of the people reading this have at some point in their lives, quietly accomplished something that they know to be important but which will largely go unnoticed. Sometimes we do things just because we have to be at peace with the person who looks...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Dec 10, 2020 | Healthcare Payment Policy, Quality Payment Program
Here are links to information regarding the Physicians Fee Schedule final rule: Final Rule Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule fact sheet Quality Payment Program Final Rule fact sheet and FAQs Here are the Physician Fee Schedule files:...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Dec 9, 2020 | Healthcare Payment Policy, Quality Payment Program
CMS is conducting Webinars on the Final Rules of the Quality Payment Program and the Physician Schedule – starting today! 1. Register for the December 9 Overview of the 2021 Quality Payment Program Final Rule Webinar 2:00 – 3:30 pm eastern The Centers for...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Dec 2, 2020 | Healthcare Payment Policy, Quality Payment Program
Deadlines are approaching for Physicians to submit hardship exemption paperwork to CMS. Depending on your situation, requesting an exemption could spare you penalties under MIPS. I will be the first to admit that this process is darn confusing when it’s business as...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 25, 2020 | Healthcare Payment Policy, Quality Payment Program
As a result of COVID-19, CMS has extended the 2019 MIPS reporting deadline to April 30, 2020. Click here to read the full press release. Caroline Fife, M.D.Dr. Fife is a world renowned wound care physician dedicated to improving patient outcomes through quality driven...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Sep 30, 2019 | Healthcare Payment Policy, Quality Payment Program, US Wound Registry
Do you still have the photos of the first patient you treated with the VAC? Here are the 1997 photos of my first VAC patient, only 2 years after the device was cleared by the FDA. I know the photo quality is terrible – they were originally Polaroids! My point is that...
