by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Nov 30, 2016 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
Here are my latest editorials from Today’s Wound Clinic (in case you missed them): October 2016 – http://www.todayswoundclinic.com/articles/editor-coming-december-santas-naughty-nice-list-eligible-providers November 2016 –...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Oct 18, 2016 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Quality Payment Program
This December, two months from now, all the 2015 quality data reported by any eligible provider (collected by any mechanism) will be made public by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). If you are a hyperbaric medicine or wound care practitioner who...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Nov 6, 2015 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
Hyperbaric physicians unite! Time to speak out and voice your concerns and educated opinions on the limitations imposed by the First Coast Draft LCD. GuideWell Source is the parent company of First Coast Service Options as well as Novitas Solutions. Between these two...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Oct 6, 2015 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
I recently got a complicated patient healed with a cellular product. I’d have to pay money back if Medicare reviews my claim because I used it outside of the coverage criteria. Based on the analysis that Dr. Marissa Carter and I performed, here’s a description of the...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 27, 2015 | Cassandra Chronicles: Regulatory and Coverage Policy, Miscellaneous Musings, Pressure Cooker: Rethinking Pressure Ulcers, US Wound Registry
Last month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services made public more hospital and physician billing data. The 2013 data covers about 950,000 providers who received $90 billion in Medicare payments. Medicare’s highest physician payments went to hematologists and...
