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Information on the Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule

Information on the Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule

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:...
Information on the Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule

Register for CMS Webinars on the final rules for the Quality Payment Program (Today!) and the Physician Fee Schedule

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...
Upcoming MIPS Important Dates and Deadlines

Upcoming MIPS Important Dates and Deadlines

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...
Information on the Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule

CMS Extends the 2019 MIPS Deadline to April 30, 2020

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...
How NPWT Changed Wound Care and Why We Need to Think Like Oncologists

How NPWT Changed Wound Care and Why We Need to Think Like Oncologists

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...
The Unwilling Doing the Impossible for the Ungrateful: Wound Care Quality Measure Development

The Unwilling Doing the Impossible for the Ungrateful: Wound Care Quality Measure Development

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 29, 2019 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Quality Payment Program

A recent column in Med Page Today by David Nash draws attention to the quality measure development process as well as its funding model by CMS. My comment in response was not published in Med Page (shocking!), so I thought I’d post it here: “Thank you for...
The Wound Care Practitioner Reduction Program (HRRP)

The Wound Care Practitioner Reduction Program (HRRP)

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 27, 2019 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Quality Payment Program

A recent column in Med Page Today by David Nash draws attention to the frustrating issue of the quality measure development process (as well as its funding model). If any wound care practitioner has looked at their Quality and Resource Use Report (QRUR), you might...
Our Dirty Little Secret – Antibiotics Help Heal Some Chronic Wounds

Our Dirty Little Secret – Antibiotics Help Heal Some Chronic Wounds

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 4, 2019 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Quality Payment Program

In 2013 we were winding down the analysis needed to create the Wound Healing Index (WHI), a mathematical model to stratify wounds by their likelihood of healing. The goal was to enable the reporting of honest healing rates. Susan Horn and I have published a lot about...
Mistaken Identity Part 2 – It's Not ME!

Mistaken Identity Part 2 – It's Not ME!

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Feb 18, 2019 | Healthcare Payment Policy, Quality Payment Program

We have a serious problem with mistaken identity as wound care practitioners, and I don’t know what we are doing to do about it. I’ve told you that Medicare is holding me accountable for all the wound center patients with CHF and diabetes that get re-hospitalized each...
It’s 2019 But I Need the 2015 Certified Electronic Health Record?

It’s 2019 But I Need the 2015 Certified Electronic Health Record?

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jan 15, 2019 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Quality Payment Program

Since clinicians were first offered a financial incentive to purchase and use an electronic health record (EHR) to obtain bonus money (or avoid penalties), they have been required to use only “certified EHR technology” (CEHRT).  The names of the various payment...
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