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The Quality Payment Program and What it Means for the Future of Wound Management & HBOT Feb 2, 2023read more
Register for CMS Webinars on the final rules for the Quality Payment Program (Today!) and the Physician Fee Schedule Dec 9, 2020read more
The Unwilling Doing the Impossible for the Ungrateful: Wound Care Quality Measure Development Mar 29, 2019read more
Did You Know You Could Fail MIPS Quality Reporting Because Your EHR’s Specs are Out of Date? Dec 20, 2018read more
A Hurricane Ate my MIPS Homework – You Have Until December 31 to Apply for an Extreme Circumstance Exemption Dec 17, 2018read more
CMS Rejects a Quality Measure Focused upon Healthcare Data Exchange & Appropriate Use of Surgical Dressings… Go Figure Dec 10, 2018read more
If "Processes" are Not Part of "Quality," Why Do I Have to Document a "Time Out" in the Outpatient Clinic? Nov 26, 2018read more
Tugboats, End Results, and the Professional Obligation to Participate in a Registry May 11, 2018read more
Top Ten Reasons That the Use of HBOT is Down 50% Nationally (and What You Need to Do) Mar 1, 2018read more
Guest Post by Dr. Helen Gelly: How "Big Data" Is Changing How We Practice Medicine Jan 30, 2018read more
Guest Blogger: Dr. Marissa Carter on Clinic Visit Frequency, Chronic Wound Healing, and Beyond Feb 27, 2017read more
When a picture is NOT worth 1,000 words and Why we need patient reported outcomes in wound care Mar 3, 2016read more
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 Jan 6, 2016read more