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Peripheral Arterial Hall of Shame – Case #4

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 10, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care

This is another installment of the Peripheral Arterial Disease Hall of Shame. You may be getting tired of these cases, but since I see at least one a month, I think I will just keep adding to the Hall of Shame. This woman is in her late 80’s and has moderate dementia....

Peripheral Arterial Disease Hall of Shame – Case #3

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 3, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care

This is another installment in my “Peripheral Arterial Disease Hall of Shame” The photo is a 50ish woman with diabetes and a history of smoking. A right femoral popliteal bypass was performed 3 months earlier. Unfortunately she developed a graft infection and her...

Peripheral Arterial Disease Hall of Shame – Case #1

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Apr 19, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care

I have decided to start a series called the “Peripheral Arterial Disease Hall of Shame.” Maybe if we keep talking about these cases we can change the way these patients are treated so they are diagnosed before it is too late. This is a 60ish year old man...

Meet the Masters

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 21, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Quality Payment Program

Join me TONIGHT (9pm Central Time) to talk about MIPS and the QCDR as they pertain to Podiatry and Wound Care, on ‘Meet the Masters’ with Bret Ribotsky, DPM of www.PodiatricSuccess.com Meet the Masters is the leading information forum for today’s dynamic...

Today's Wound Clinic – latest Editorial

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Dec 28, 2016 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Quality Payment Program

From The Editor Tue, 12/13/16 – 16:02 Login to Download PDF version Issue Number: Volume 10 Issue 12 – December 2016 Author(s): Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM My Dad’s definition of “mixed emotions” was seeing your mother-in-law drive off a cliff...

Predicting Ideal Wounds for HBOT

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 30, 2016 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy

The Hyperbaric oxygen therapy prior authorization project has been in effect a little more than a year and CMS is in the process of reviewing its impact to prepare an interim report. As the Medicare coffers dwindle, we have to ask ourselves how we can best utilize...

Monday Musings

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 19, 2015 | Cassandra Chronicles: Regulatory and Coverage Policy, Pressure Cooker: Rethinking Pressure Ulcers, Quality Payment Program, US Wound Registry

More and more of my patients are on Medicare “advantage” plans. Just this week I asked one of them why she decided to take a Medicare replacement plan rather than a traditional Medicare plan. I was pretty sure I knew the answer because my husband got Medicare this...

Monday Musings

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 13, 2015 | Cassandra Chronicles: Regulatory and Coverage Policy, Miscellaneous Musings, Pressure Cooker: Rethinking Pressure Ulcers, US Wound Registry

Last week I asked how things were going with getting eCQMs into your EHR. You need to do this to avoid negative payment adjustments but also because your performance on quality measures may very likely be the way that payers decide WHETHER they will send patients to...

Monday Musings

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 6, 2015 | Cassandra Chronicles: Regulatory and Coverage Policy, Pressure Cooker: Rethinking Pressure Ulcers, Quality Payment Program, US Wound Registry

I don’t know how many of you have actually downloaded any of the USWR electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs) and then gotten them installed into your wound center EHR. Downloading them is easy because the programming is open source and you can use the link below...

Ask the Physician Friday

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 26, 2015 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care

Good morning and Happy Friday! Friday’s on the blog are reserved for “Ask the Physician Friday.” If you have any questions for me please feel free to leave them in the comments below, ask on Twitter (@carolinefifemd), or on Facebook (Woodlands Wound...
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