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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...

UHMS Pressure Newsletter

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 3, 2016 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care

Your Complimentary Copy of the UHMS Pressure Newsletter – Summer Issue...

Introducing the Quality and Resource Use Report (QRUR)

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 1, 2016 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Quality Payment Program

I am going to describe the process by which CMS calculates Quality and Resource Use and then show you data from my own Quality and Resource Use Report (QRUR). Warning: there is math involved, and there is no possible way to make this topic interesting. However, it is...

Specialty Registry Reporting – Why Participate?

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jan 13, 2016 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Quality Payment Program

This year, Medicare begins to financially penalize clinicians who fail to succeed with quality programs. We are all in this together! The two critical programs are the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) and the Meaningful Use (MU) of an Electronic Health Record...

Straight Talk Tuesday

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Nov 24, 2015 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Quality Payment Program

CMS recently published a final rule that specifies criteria that eligible professionals (EPs) must meet in order to participate in the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs. EHR Incentive Programs Final Rule Provisions The new...

Straight Talk Tuesday

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Nov 3, 2015 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care

Please remember to check out my November/December 2015 editorial in Today’s Wound Clinic. I reviewed the sad history of the two years I spent as President of the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society from 1998 to 2000, during which CMS attempted to reduce facility...

Throwback Thursday

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Oct 29, 2015 | Cassandra Chronicles: Regulatory and Coverage Policy, Miscellaneous Musings, Pressure Cooker: Rethinking Pressure Ulcers, US Wound Registry

Earlier this month, I showed you some photos of a malnourished patient who I think has improved because of Argenaid. While there may be some things in the past that I miss, I confess that in the past I did not pay sufficient attention to nutritional issues. I’m...

What is it Woundsday?

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Oct 28, 2015 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care

This is a photo of the patient I mentioned previously this month. It may be hard to get your bearings, but the gauze is over his tracheostomy at the anterior neck. The wound is on the lateral neck and you can see his major neck vessels exposed. This is metastatic...

Monday Musings

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Oct 26, 2015 | Cassandra Chronicles: Regulatory and Coverage Policy, Miscellaneous Musings, Pressure Cooker: Rethinking Pressure Ulcers, US Wound Registry

On September 28, 2015, CMS made available the 2014 Supplemental Quality and Resource Use Reports (QRURs) to every medical group practice and solo practitioner nationwide. Providers are identified in the Supplemental QRURs by their Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN)....

Friday's Featured Friends: Guest M. Darlene Carey, MBA

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Oct 23, 2015 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care

It’s not IF but WHEN you get the notice of a payer audit. One day you will open your mail and receive the Notice of Audit.  It’s no longer IF, but WHEN.  What are you doing RIGHT NOW to ensure you will be successful when your time comes? Preparation is the key. ...
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