As a Podiatrist you are probably seeing a lot of ingrown and infected toenails in a nursing home. And you are probably not getting reimbursed for what you feel you deserve. So how do you increase the amount to get paid legally? It really is simple to get paid more for 11060 code. Generally speaking, …
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The answer is yes you can, but you have to have treated something other than the fungal toenails during the visit. For example, if the Podiatrist sees the patient in the nursing home and prescribes a treatment for athletes foot AND bills the fungal toenails, that would work. Or if your Podiatrist treated a …
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A very common treatment for Plantar Fasciitis is to perform both a low dye taping and cortisone shot for Plantar Fasciitis. A lot of Podiatrists forgo the billing of the low dye taping and only bill the cortisone shot, but you can bill both if you put in the work and it is very simple. …
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Here are some videos that I think are very instructional on getting full collections from Podiatry patients. Yes, I understand it’s not easy but I found some of these lectures very informative. 3 Tips To Getting 100% Payment from Patients Best Practices for Increasing Patient Payments How Do You Improve Patient Collections At The Time …
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You run a Podiatry practice. You bill correctly. You do everything honestly and correctly, and yet patients still will not pay what they owe you and insurance companies do not fully reimburse you. It can be tough. It can be a struggle. One of the things that sucks is every article you read about maximizing …
Where do you find decorations for your Podiatry office? You want something with a theme and that theme…….should probably be the feet. Where do you find stuff that is perfect for it? Perhaps may I suggest Amazon? They have lots of different options to choose from. One of the first and easiest decorations to find …
So you want to bill Bunion Surgery. Here is a simple guide to billing bunion surgery. I hope to explain them in English for both the Podiatrist and the biller. 28298: This correction for Hallux Valgus code is reserved for base wedge osteotomies of the Metatarsal, essentially severe bunions. In other words, if the Metatarsal …
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If you are billing proximal bunioneictomies with or without sesamoidectomy the correct CPT code to use is 28295. Now to bill this the bunionectomy must include the base of the bunionectomy, not just the neck. In other words you do not bill Austin Bunionecotomies this way but can bill SCARF bunioneictomies this way.
Finally it is here. When you perform surgery for Hallux Rigidus or Hallux Limitus with an implant, regardless of what implant you use, the code that should be used is 28291, which is Hallux Limitus repair with implant
Below I have listed all the CPT Codes a Podiatry practice will ever need for billing X Rays 73600: Ankle X Ray 2 views 73610: Ankle X Ray 3 views 73620: Foot 2 views 73630: Complete Foot 3 views 73590: Tibia/Fibula AP/LAT Unilateral or Bilateral 73660: Toes
