Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY4) introduced legislation in the US
House of Representatives, on behalf of the Pedorthic Footwear
Association (PFA), which would restore Medicare’s Therapeutic Shoes
for Persons with Diabetes benefit (TSD) to a standalone benefit
with its previous reimbursement methodology. Essentially, the
legislation would set the clock back on the TSD to where it was
before it was rolled into the orthotics & prosthetics benefit
category and fee schedule as a result of the Medicare Prescription
Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA). McCarthy, a
Registered Nurse and longtime pedorthic advocate, worked with the
PFA to craft H.R. 1416 (the “Medicare Diabetic Footwear Quality
Restoration Act of 2005”) to respond to the pedorthic profession’s
concerns about the deleterious impact MMAs change to the TSD will
have on the quality of patient care, beneficiary access to
pedorthists accepting Medicare assignment, and, the quality of the
medical products and materials being used to treat Medicares
diabetic patients qualified for the TSD.
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