With increasing regulatory hurdles and pressures from payers to provide detailed documentation to justify devices, clinicians and support staff can sometimes feel like their jobs revolve more around reimbursement than patient care. In this issue, we asked experts to share their expertise about how to balance the need to address these administrative burdens with focusing on what drove them to enter the profession: helping patients regain their mobility and independence.
For people living with lower-limb amputations, their K-levels have one of the biggest impacts on their access to prosthetic devices. In “K-levels in Practice: The Impact on Patient Care,” clinicians, physicians, physical therapists, and billing specialists share their advice on how to find the right devices within the system, including telling the story for payers when fitting a microprocessor knee on patients with a K2 designation, and appropriately assigning or reassessing a K-level.
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