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Thoughts from the Eye of the Healthcare Storm Part 1…

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 9, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Quality Payment Program

  Many wound care practitioners may not realize it, but we are currently sitting in the “eye of a healthcare storm” due to the impact of quality payment programs, MACRA, and MIPS. Some of us residing on the Gulf Coast know what it’s like to look up into the quiet...

HBOT Registry Helps Preserve Physician Supervision Fees

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 26, 2016 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Quality Payment Program

An important paper has been released by the U.S. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Registry (HBOTR) detailing its work in Medicare reimbursement issues. “Rapid analysis of hyperbaric oxygen therapy registry data for reimbursement purposes,” a technical paper by Caroline E....

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...

MIPS and the Quality and Resource Use Report

by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 17, 2016 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Quality Payment Program

For over a decade we had an annual crisis of uncertainty regarding Medicare physician payments. Under the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula, physician reimbursement needed to be cut by at least 21% to keep the Medicare program from going under financially....

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