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Podiatry Today
In-office magnetic resonance imaging, in-office vascular testing, the stocking of wound care supplies and other modalities can add value to your podiatry practice. This author presents practical insights on what can give you the best return on investment and how to implement these ancillary modalities in the office.
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Podiatry Management
With the Affordable
Care Act, the rigors of MACRA, the
new Merit Incentive Payment System, and the Alternative Payment Models, podiatrists are going to have to identify how practice will change in the next few years. With the escalating costs that have burdened Medicare since its inception, CMS has instituted a Medicare Fraud Strike Force to recoup all the monies that were considered paid to providers who allegedly committed fraud. Currently, CMS has collected over $8.9 billion in their efforts to collect the revenues paid to over 2,900 providers
who billed Medicare fraudulently.
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PrognoCIS Electronic Health Record (EHR) and services use the latest internet technologies to provide efficient practice management and medical billing, meeting the needs of podiatrists around the country.
Learn why our members say we’re "More Than a Great EHR."
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MD Magazine
Although some foot and ankle injuries are not serious, physicians are often advised to recommend additional tests to make the proper diagnosis. A new study found just how damaging a misdiagnosis of a lower extremity injury can be to a patient's health.
As an osteopathic physician, I view treatment of foot and ankle injuries as acute and preventive care because mismanaged injury leads to so many future problems for patients," lead author, Jessica Reissig, DO, of the Department of Orthopedics at Plainview Hospital in New York, said in a news release.
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Medical Xpress
As many as two-thirds of the homeless population suffers some form of foot problem at any given time, according to research two Dalhousie medical students recently published in the international scientific journal, PLOS ONE.
Matthew To and Thomas Brothers, both fourth-year students in Dalhousie Medical School's MD program, found that homeless and vulnerably housed people are seriously affected by a wide range of foot problems — from infections, ulcers, and injuries, to deformities, ingrown toenails, and nerve damage caused by uncontrolled diabetes. For some, problems as severe as frostbite, gangrene and diabetic neuropathy can lead to amputation.
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Dove Medical Press
Foot ulcers account for 15 percent of comorbidities associated with diabetes. Presently, no device allows the status of foot ulcers to be continuously monitored when patients are not hospitalized. In this study, researchers describe a temperature and a pH sensor capable of monitoring diabetic foot and venous leg ulcers developed in the frame of the seventh framework program European Union project SWAN-iCare (smart wearable and autonomous negative pressure device for wound monitoring and therapy).
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Journal of Foot and Ankle Research
The Root model of normal and abnormal foot function remains the basis for clinical foot orthotic practice globally. Our aim was to investigate the relationship between foot deformities and kinematic compensations that are the foundations of the model.
A convenience sample of 140 were screened and 100 symptom free participants aged 18-45 years were invited to participate. The static biomechanical assessment described by the Root model was used to identify five foot deformities.
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Podiatry Today
Asserting that most pathologic flexible flatfoot deformities are higher arched cavus feet that have collapsed and become misshapen, the author says having an understanding of this concept can help guide conservative and surgical treatments.
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Physicians Practice
CMS has stepped up its Recovery Audit Contractor audits. Commercial payers are using data analytics tools to identify coding and billing "outliers" and target them for audits. It's never been more important to make sure your medical record documentation is complete, accurate, and complies with federal guidelines. Here are five tips that will help your practice reduce risk.
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Obesity Research & Clinical Practice
OBJECTIVE: We investigated obesity, foot pain and selected foot disorders, and determined if associations differed by foot posture or dynamic foot function. METHODS: We included 2445 men and women (4888 feet) from the Framingham Foot Study (2002-2008).
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