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June 15, 2017 PAD Hall of Shame / U.S. Wound Registry

Peripheral Arterial Disease Hall of Shame

In 2011, we published a paper entitled, “Why is it hard to do the right thing in wound care?” in

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May 13, 2016 #P4Q / Do the Right Thing / Hyperbaric Medicine / Meaningful Use / Medicare Physician Payments / MU2 Objective 10 / PQRS / Specialty Registry Reporting / U.S. Wound Registry / Wound Care in the Trenches

Using Quality and Cost to Determine Value

I am explaining MIPS, the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System. Although MIPS does not begin until 2017, 85% of the MIPS

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May 5, 2016 #P4Q / Do the Right Thing / Meaningful Use / PQRS

The Quality Game Right Now: MU and PQRS

I’m picking up where I’d left off before SAWC Spring – explaining MIPS, the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System. Although MIPS

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March 17, 2016 Medicare Physician Payments / PQRS

MIPS and the Quality and Resource Use Report

For over a decade we had an annual crisis of uncertainty regarding Medicare physician payments. Under the Sustainable Growth Rate

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February 17, 2016 #P4Q / Do the Right Thing / Hyperbaric Medicine / Podiatry / PQRS / Specialty Registry Reporting / U.S. Wound Registry

How to Pass PQRS

We have less than two weeks in the deadline for Registry Reporting deadlines for 2016 Meaningful Use Stage 2 Objective

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January 13, 2016 #P4Q / MU2 Objective 10 / PQRS

Specialty Registry Reporting – Why Participate?

This year, Medicare begins to financially penalize clinicians who fail to succeed with quality programs. We are all in this

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January 6, 2016 #P4Q / PQRS

The Brave New World of Medicare Physician Payment: The Quality and Resource Use Report and what you need to do before the end of February

2015 is the first year that CMS has distributed Quality and Resource Use Reports (QRURs) to all physicians in the

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Caroline Fife, MD

Caroline Fife, MD

Dr. Fife is a world renowned wound care physician. She is the Medical Director of the Wound Care Center at CHI St. Luke's The Woodlands Hospital, Chief Medical Officer of Intellicure, Inc., Executive Director of the US Wound and US Podiatry Registries, and Founding Clinical Editor of Today's Wound Clinic.

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