Federal Advocacy
- CBO Should Revisit Cost Estimate of The Helping Ensure Life- and Limb-Saving Access to Podiatric Physicians (HELLPP) Act
An analysis of Congressional Budget Office cost estimates of the HELLPP Act as included in SGR repeal and replace legislation.
- Clarifying and Strengthening Coordination of Care in the Medicare Therapeutic Shoe Program
The current process and Medicare contractor requirements for determining eligibility for Medicare’s Therapeutic Shoe Program for Patients with Diabetes, and for furnishing this medically necessary benefit, are unnecessarily burdensome and frequently bogged down, leading to frustration on the part of the certifying physician, prescribing doctor, and supplier. The HELLPP Act would alleviate this problem.
- Fact Sheet: Studies Prove Podiatrists Prevent Complications, Provide Savings
According to the CDC, more than 29 million Americans live with diabetes. Diabetes is the leading cause of non-traumatic lower-limb amputation; however, amputations can be prevented. Two peer-reviewed published studies evaluated care by podiatrists for patients with diabetes and demonstrated that compared to other health-care professionals, podiatrists are best equipped to treat lower extremity complications from diabetes, prevent amputations, reduce hospitalizations and provide savings to our health-care delivery systems.
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