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Medicare Fee Schedule’s Impact on Podiatry
The 2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) Proposed Rule directly impacts Medicare payments for many clinicians. Read more about the rule to learn how to help reduce denials, maximize reimbursements, and set your practice in a stronger position.
Source: Billing Paradise
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From the Magazine: Practice Marketing Thoughts for 2026
In today’s extremely competitive landscape, it’s crucial for podiatry practices to understand how to market their practice for differentiation. High-cost marketing does not always translate into high yield. Similarly, low-cost marketing can produce substantial return on its investment.
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Salvaging Patient Balances After Write-Off
1. Sort the pile before you work a single account
Aged patient balances are usually worked in the order they aged, which is the least profitable order available. The accounts behave in distinct groups, and the groups need different treatment. Segment by balance size, age, whether the patient had coverage, and whether the patient has ever paid the practice anything.
Size matters more than most billing teams assume. Kodiak Solutions found patients are reasonably likely to pay balances of $500 or less and much less likely to pay above that, with another sharp drop past $5,000. That means a stack of $40 balances and a stack of $2,000 balances are two different problems: one is a candidate for automation or a write-off threshold, the other justifies a human phone call and a structured plan. Working them the same way guarantees staff spend their best hours on the accounts least likely to close.
Source: Keith A. Reynolds, Physicians Practice
MGMA Regulatory Burden Report
The Medical Group Management Association’s (MGMA) 2026 Regulatory Burden Report highlights the negative impacts that increased regulatory burden and decreased reimbursement has on the healthcare system, its practitioners and staff.
Source: MGMA.com
DOJ Cracking Down on Skin Substitute Fraud
Skin substitutes are a booming business, which means they’re also ripe for abuse. A look at some recent cases shows the billing practices that have earned unwanted attention from law enforcement.
Source: CarolineFifeMD.com
How to Cut Patient No-Shows
2. Make your reminders two-way so patients can act in seconds
One-way blasts confirm a message went out. They do not tell you who is coming. Two-way texting lets a patient confirm, cancel or reschedule with a single reply, on their own time, without waiting on hold or calling back during office hours.
That matters because the channel most practices lean on, the phone, is the one patients use least. Texts get opened and read; voicemails increasingly do not. Shifting to texting appointment reminders also frees your front desk from a stack of reminder calls, so the same staff you already have can spend that time on patients in the building. The goal is to turn a silent no-show into an early cancellation you can still fill.
Source: Keith A. Reynolds, Physicians Practice
Doctors Still Skeptical About Prior Auth Reforms
Even though insurers have made new commitments to streamline the prior authorization process over the next few years, only about one-third of doctors think they’ll make a “meaningful difference” in the situation.
Source: MedCity News
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