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Dr. Michael Warshaw's 2017 Podiatry Manual, published by the American College of Foot & Ankle Orthopedics & Medicine, provides expert billing and coding answers every podiatric office needs. For 2017, there have been significant CPT changes and several ICD-10 changes. There are also certain issues that Medicare has moved to the top of the list to audit for inappropriate billing. See what’s new for 2017 that motivated Dr. Warshaw to add an additional 300+ pages of content.
Discover why so many podiatric offices across the country refer to this manual as their "Bible" when it comes to billing, coding, and documentation. ACFAOM members save $50 off the regular non-member price of $125. Learn more and purchase your 2017 edition.
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ACFAOM
Kenneth Himmler was the featured guest on last week's Meet the Masters audio-conference with host, and former ACFAOM president, Bret Ribotsky, DPM, FACFAOM. Kenneth is a financial expert who combines tax strategies, investment structure, and asset and law suit protection into one plan. If you missed last week's conference, watch it online.
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Podiatry Today
Richard Blake DPM writes: "If a patient feels the Achilles tendon begin to hurt, it may not necessarily lead to a rupture. This is usually not the case in my experience. In fact, most of my patients who tore their Achilles did not have any symptoms beforehand. They were unlucky and probably had a small defect in the tendon. It is rare for Achilles tears to occur on both sides.
This fear that patients have around the health of the Achilles, typically when it begins to get sore, is not justified. However, we do not know if we are beginning to feel just the tip of the iceberg with a bigger problem brewing."
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Podiatry Management
Throughout your career,
you will likely spend
thousands of hours leaning over patients, executing precise repetitive motions in a very small physical space, with little to no margin for error.
While your patients' toes and feet will be kept in excellent condition as a result, your own body mechan-ics are likely to suffer considerably.
Holding a balanced position for extended periods of time, balancing the weight of your head and arms to get just the right angle, and/or getting up and down from a seated or bent-over position repeatedly are just a few of the repetitive actions that take
a toll on the practicing podiatrist.
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Podiatry Today
A study presented as a poster at the American College of Foot and Ankle Surgeons Annual Scientific Conference found a significantly elevated risk of limb loss following transmetatarsal amputation in patients with peripheral vascular disease.
The study, which won first place in the scientific poster category, was a retrospective cohort study of 153 patients with peripheral vascular disease who had a transmetatarsal amputation. The study found an overall limb loss incidence of 44 percent after TMA regardless of what type of vascular intervention patients had.
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CBS Philly
Foot and ankle injuries are often misdiagnosed which can lead to more serious, persistent problems, according to the new research.
Athlete Paul Picinich always played hard, until an intense flag football game landed him on the sidelines last year.
"Tried to grab the flag and felt something rip in my ankle," said Picinich.
The next day he couldn't walk, so he headed to urgent care.
According to Picinich, urgent care told him, "We're probably looking at a sprain, but the X-rays are pretty inconclusive. You're probably going to need to get an MRI."
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The Washington Post
Nearly four times as many Americans may die of diabetes as indicated on death certificates, a rate that would bump the disease up from the seventh-leading cause of death to No. 3, according to estimates in a recent study.
Researchers and advocates say that more-precise figures are important as they strengthen the argument that more should be done to prevent and treat diabetes, which affects the way sugar is metabolized in the body.
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Physicians Practice
Many people think doctors are cold-hearted and curt. While there may be some that fit the criteria, the majority of physicians truly care about helping others and the lives entrusted to our hands. While we try to save and lengthen lives, sometimes this simply is not possible. One of the hardest tasks that a clinician must do, for many of is, is giving patients bad news.
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Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice
In this review we report on the state of cell therapy of critical limb ischemia with respect to differences between diabetic and non-diabetic patients mainly from the clinical point of view. CLI is the most severe form of peripheral arterial disease and its diagnosis and treatment in diabetic patients is very difficult. The therapeutic effect of standard methods of CLI treatment is only partial - more than one third of diabetic patients are not eligible for standard revascularization; therefore, new therapeutic techniques such as cell therapy have been studied in clinical trials.
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