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Podiatry Coding:

Navigate Routine Foot Care Coverage Across the 7 MACs

Published on Mon Jul 20, 2026

Same procedure, 7 personalities — a field guide to Medicare podiatry billing. Routine foot care (RFC) might be the only corner of medicine where trimming a toenail triggers a denial, a clawback, and a small existential crisis — all before lunch. Medicare statutorily excludes RFC, then quietly pays for it under a tangle of exceptions that no two Medicare Administrative [...]
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