A “good” diabetic foot ulcer healing rate depends entirely on what you’re measuring, when you’re measuring it, and who your patients are. There is no single national benchmark that applies equally to a hospital-based wound center, a rural...
A MIPS registry comparison usually starts and ends with price, which is exactly backwards. The vendor that quotes the lowest per-provider fee can still hand you a scoring system built for internal medicine, a manual upload portal your staff dreads, and no answer when...
Hyperbaric oxygen (HBO) physicians face a MIPS problem that general surgery and internal medicine measure sets were never designed to solve: how do you get fair credit for healing a diabetic foot ulcer in a patient with six comorbidities and a wound that’s been...
If you’re treating diabetic foot ulcers but reporting MIPS quality measures built for primary care, your scores may not reflect the complexity of your patients, or protect you from a penalty. The diabetic foot ulcer quality measure landscape includes both...
Diabetic foot ulcer trials routinely enroll patients who look nothing like the ones filling wound center schedules. Draft protocols exclude peripheral arterial disease, end-stage renal disease, and long-standing wounds so tightly that the resulting evidence base says...
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