Practicing Podiatry with One year of Residency

[podguy]

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Does board certification have any effect on reimbursement from insurance companies if I am in private practice and am non-surgical?

 

[NatCh]

Not being board certified would have a dramatically negative effect where I live.
No Board Cert = no hospital privileges.
No hospital privileges = no private insurance participation.

Although it is a pain in the butt, I'd advise going through with the process as far as you can take it so you don't regret it later. Once board certified you can always choose to not do surgery but if you're not board certified then you may find yourself without many choices at all.

 

[podguy]

Not being board certified would have a dramatically negative effect where I live.
No Board Cert = no hospital privileges.
No hospital privileges = no private insurance participation.

Although it is a pain in the butt, I'd advise going through with the process as far as you can take it so you don't regret it later. Once board certified you can always choose to not do surgery but if you're not board certified then you may find yourself without many choices at all.

Thanks for the response.

 

[NatCh]

I should clarify -- Oregon does not require board certification to get a license but we have a lot of private insurance in my part of the state. Every private insurance panel to which I've applied wants doctors to have hospital privileges and I live in a one hospital town that requires board qual/cert to be on staff. Therefore, not having board certification would mean I wouldn't be on staff at the hospital, which in turn would mean I wouldn't be on private insurance panels. I could still participate in Medicare/Medicaid but they reimburse quite a bit less. The insurance climate might be (is probably) a lot different on the east coast.

I think it would be very difficult to start a cash-only practice unless you're so incredibly talented that people want to see you and nobody else, or you provide a service that no one else does.

 

[g squared 23]

You'd likely be able to see Medicare and Medicaid, but as NatCh mentioned, the "good" insurances will hold your application until you have hospital privileges.