The MACs are Back… With TPE Audits

February 22, 2022

The MACs are back at it with the Targeted Probe and Educate (TPE) audits. TPEs were briefly suspended for COVID-19, but now they are back.

Here’s a letter I sent to my MAC Medical Director before COVID-19 hit about my own TPE:

My Letter to Novitas About My Own Targeted Probe & Educate (TPE) Audit – Caroline Fife M.D. (carolinefifemd.com)

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Dr. Fife is Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Intellicure, Executive Director of the US Wound Registry, and Editor of Today’s Wound Clinic.

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