Hello All,
What are some of the current issues affecting podiatric medicine? Clinical and non- clincial...
What are some of the current issues affecting podiatric medicine? Clinical and non- clincial...
Hello All,
What are some of the current issues affecting podiatric medicine? Clinical and non- clincial...
Fixed.I also find there to be a lot of DPMs with chips on their shoulders, warranted or not.
I also find there to be alot of DPMs with chips on their shoulders, warranted or not.
National Scope of Practice
Reimbursement reductions
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How do the reimbursement reductions compare to other medical specialties? Has/Will podiatry been hit harder than everyone else?
Yes and no.
Every doctors gets hit with it. When medicare reduces reimbursements, it does it globally and then every insurance plan follows suit.
Where we differ is that somehow or other, we always seem to have a colleague down the road who will do it for cheaper. This ultimately forces us to take a lower rate to stay on the insurance panels. Sad but true.
If we ALL banded together we would get so much more done.
If we ALL banded together we would get so much more done.
Careful there Kidsfeet...we don't want anyone to get accused of price fixing hehehe
Is there anything the APMA can do about any of these concerns, especially the reimubursements?
They have a team of people working on this day in and day out as well as a committee of colleagues with their ear to the ground at all times. Without the APMA's efforts things would be A LOT worse than they are. Believe me on that one.
I believe ya. Anything specific you know of? Just curious.
...it seems like feet are a pretty big issue in our field. Apparently everyone has them, some people even have 2.
I'm only a first year, so my understanding of the field and all of it's ins and outs is a bit limited.
That being said, so far after seeing several DPM's give lectures, interviewing at various schools and reading about the news, it seems like feet are a pretty big issue in our field. Apparently everyone has them, some people even have 2.
You just blew my mind.
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