The average person walks 100,000 miles in a lifetime.

That’s a lot of wear and tear on our feet and ankles, the unique body parts that keep America moving, active, and productive at our jobs. Doctors of Podiatric Medicine (DPMs) are physicians and surgeons at the forefront of delivering specialized foot and ankle care.

Each and every day, podiatric physicians keep America walking by preventing higher cost critical outcomes like hospitalizations and amputations. In fact, the inclusion of care provided by podiatric physicians for those with diabetes alone will save our health-care system as much as $3.5 billion per year.

To find out more about how podiatrists are improving health outcomes and saving health-care dollars, and why it makes sense to remove barriers for patient access to podiatric physicians by supporting HR 1761, the Helping Ensure Life- and Limb-Saving Access to Podiatric Physicians (HELLPP) Act, click on one of the issue briefs below.

• Podiatric Medicine: Expertise in Foot and Ankle Care
• Fact Sheet: Studies Prove Podiatrists Prevent Complications, Provide Savings
• The Majority of Foot/Ankle Care in the U.S. is Performed by Podiatric Physicians but Medicaid Patients May Not Have Access
• The Helping Ensure Life- and Limb-Saving Access to Podiatric Physicians (HELLPP) Act
• Strengthening Coordination of Care in the Medicare Diabetic Shoe Program
• The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) Should Revisit pre-PPACA Estimate of The Helping Ensure Life- and Limb-Saving Access to Podiatric Physicians (HELLPP) Act