by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Jun 15, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Quality Payment Program
In 2011, we published a paper entitled, “Why is it hard to do the right thing in wound care?” in which we documented that only 17% of venous ulcers were treated with adequate compression every time they were seen at a wound center. Those statistics were...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 15, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Quality Payment Program
You have until March 2018 to submit data. If you are subject to MIPS and do nothing, you will lose 4% of your Medicare Part B payments (although you will not experience this penalty until 2019). Click on the website below and enter your National Provider Identifier...
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...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 15, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Quality Payment Program
The New England Journal has this article out about “Online Patient Reviews” that is worth a read. http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1610136 I have a negative review on Yelp from a patient who I never even saw, but who is upset with me because I...
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...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Mar 7, 2017 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Quality Payment Program
In the most recent podcast from Today’s Wound Clinic, Stephen G. Bergquist, MD, CWSP, speaks with me about the impact of quality payment programs on outpatient wound clinics....
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | Aug 26, 2016 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, 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....
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...
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...
by Caroline Fife, M.D. | May 13, 2016 | Fight the Good Fight, Health Information Technology and Wound Care, Quality Payment Program
I am explaining MIPS, the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System. Although MIPS does not begin until 2017, 85% of the MIPS score is derived from performance in the 2 quality programs that clinicians should already be engaged in: Meaningful Use of an EHR (MU) and the...
