Quality Payment Program
What’s Wrong with Medicare Physician Payment? MIPS!
24 Days Until the Close of the 2023 MIPS Data Submission Period
The Deadline to Submit MIPS Data for 2023 is April 1 at 6 pm EST to Avoid up to a 9% Penalty on Medicare Revenue
2024 QCDRs & Qualified Registries Qualified Postings are Now Available
The Quality Payment Program and What it Means for the Future of Wound Management & HBOT
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
Upcoming MIPS Important Dates and Deadlines
CMS Extends the 2019 MIPS Deadline to April 30, 2020
How NPWT Changed Wound Care and Why We Need to Think Like Oncologists
The Unwilling Doing the Impossible for the Ungrateful: Wound Care Quality Measure Development
The Wound Care Practitioner Reduction Program (HRRP)
Our Dirty Little Secret – Antibiotics Help Heal Some Chronic Wounds
Mistaken Identity Part 2 – It's Not ME!
It’s 2019 But I Need the 2015 Certified Electronic Health Record?
Did You Know You Could Fail MIPS Quality Reporting Because Your EHR’s Specs are Out of Date?
A Hurricane Ate my MIPS Homework – You Have Until December 31 to Apply for an Extreme Circumstance Exemption
CMS Rejects a Quality Measure Focused upon Healthcare Data Exchange & Appropriate Use of Surgical Dressings… Go Figure
If "Processes" are Not Part of "Quality," Why Do I Have to Document a "Time Out" in the Outpatient Clinic?
Big Strides with Small Uphill Steps
If You Use "Skin Substitutes," Read This and Pass It On
How to Prevent Improper Use Without Costly, Time Sucking Prior Authorization
People are Starving – In Your Waiting Room
Join Me at the APWCA Conference in Baltimore
Endpoints for Wound Patients – Do We Really Care?
Visualizing the Complex Patient
Let's Find What Works
The Doctor is OUT
And the Final Score Is…
Even Practitioners Exempt from MIPS Should Consider Reporting – Why?
The Courage to Do the Right Thing
Tugboats, End Results, and the Professional Obligation to Participate in a Registry
New Cars, Fiscal Cliffs, Mothers-in-Law & MIPS
Arcanum Aqua – the Mysterious Water Problem of the Lower Extremities
Making the “Right Thing” the “Easy Thing” in Wound Care
A Little Panicking is Not a Bad Thing
Top Ten Reasons That the Use of HBOT is Down 50% Nationally (and What You Need to Do)
A Lifeboat for Hyperbaric Medicine
Risky Business
Guest Post by Dr. Helen Gelly: How "Big Data" Is Changing How We Practice Medicine
Cassandra on MIPS Year Two
To MIPS or not to MIPS? That is the Question.
Pressure Ulcer Summit
Stop Data Blocking
The Novitas Wound Care LCD, Debridement Services, and Real World Data – Part 4
Why publicly reported “Wound Healing” rates are pure fiction…
Food as Medicine – Part 5
Food as Medicine – Part 4
Food as Medicine – Part 3
Food as Medicine: Part 1
Guidelines for the analysis of data from patient registries
HBOT in the News: How Quality Measures Can Address Criticisms
Peripheral Arterial Disease Hall of Shame
Want to know whether you are included in MIPS?
BIG NEWS for Quality Measures Part 2!
Quality Measures – BIG NEWS!
Meet the Masters
Online Patient Reviews, MIPS & CPIA, and SAWC Spring 2017
Thoughts from the Eye of the Healthcare Storm Part 1…
TWC Podcast Episode 3: The Quality Payment Program Revolution
Guest Blogger: Dr. Marissa Carter on Clinic Visit Frequency, Chronic Wound Healing, and Beyond
Today's Wound Clinic – latest Editorial
The Physician Compare Website and what it means to Wound Care Practitioners
HBOT Registry Helps Preserve Physician Supervision Fees
Actual Quality Measures for Outpatient Wound Center
Introducing the Quality and Resource Use Report (QRUR)
Using Quality and Cost to Determine Value
The Quality Game Right Now: MU and PQRS
CMS Approves 1st Patient Reported Outcome of Healing as a USWR Quality Measure
Explaining MIPS, the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System
MIPS and the Quality and Resource Use Report
When a picture is NOT worth 1,000 words and Why we need patient reported outcomes in wound care
A Guide for MU2 Objective 10 for Wound Care Practitioners
How to Pass PQRS
Reasons to Pick Specific PQRS Measures
Specialty Registry Reporting – Why Participate?
The Brave New World of Medicare Physician Payment: The Quality and Resource Use Report and what you need to do before the end of February
Selecting Measures
UPDATED: What you need to know to achieve Success with PQRS
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