HMP Global January 20, 2025
Caroline E. Fife, MD, FAAFP, CWS, FUHM

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Hi, I’m Dr. Caroline Fife. I’m the Chief Medical Officer of IntelliCure, LLC, and also a professor of geriatrics at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. And I’ve been a wound care practitioner for more than 30 years now.

What is the Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS)?

Yeah, so, MIPS is one of those things that you either love it, hate it, you care or you don’t care, although I have actually wondered if we ought to come up with some other names for it, like “Millions of Instructions, Purse News,” “Medicare Ideas, Poor Solutions.” These are all abbreviations that have been suggested. “Many Interruptions, Please Stop.”

But it’s the Merit-based Incentive Payment System. And it’s part of Medicare’s...

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