by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jul 7, 2015 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care
Every Tuesday this month we are going to have some straight talk about Quality Measures. In the June/July 2015 issue of Today’s Wound Clinic (TWC), Darlene Carey has a fantastic article about how she used quality measures to create a wound care program around evidence...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 29, 2015 | Cassandra Chronicles: Regulatory and Coverage Policy, Miscellaneous Musings, Pressure Cooker: Rethinking Pressure Ulcers, US Wound Registry
On Mondays in the month of June I am focusing on the way that quality measures will be used to evaluate practitioner performance inside and outside a healthcare organization, including compensation packages and contracted rates with payers. There are thousands of...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 15, 2015 | Miscellaneous Musings, Quality Payment Program
On Mondays in the month of June I am focusing on the way that quality measures will be used to evaluate practitioner performance inside and outside a healthcare organization, including compensation packages and contracted rates with payers. Last month, CMS released...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 1, 2015 | Cassandra Chronicles: Regulatory and Coverage Policy, Miscellaneous Musings, Pressure Cooker: Rethinking Pressure Ulcers, US Wound Registry
Last month I focused on healthcare reform initiatives focused on how quality measures will be front and center in the move from volume based care to value based care by CMS. Performance on quality measures is also going to be used to determine physician compensation...
