DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2018 Issue 5 (May)

Foot orthotics hard to bill — unless they meet strict standards

The difficulty of getting paid by Medicare for foot orthotics is obvious when you look at the denial rates on related codes. This is obvious from the chart below of codes for foot inserts — including L3000 (Foot, insert, removable, molded to patient model, ‘ucb’ type, berkeley shell, each), with which a reader was having trouble in this issue’s Ask Part B News story (see p. 4).

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