Therapeutic shoes & inserts
covers the furnishing and fitting of either of these each calendar year, if you have diabetes and severe diabetic foot disease:
- One pair of custom-molded shoes and inserts
- One pair of extra-depth shoes
Medicare also covers:
- 2 additional pairs of inserts each calendar year for custom-molded shoes
- 3 pairs of inserts each calendar year for extra-depth shoes
Medicare will cover shoe modifications instead of inserts.
If your supplier accepts
, you pay 20% of the
, and the Part B
applies.
Medicare will only cover your therapeutic shoes if your doctors and suppliers are enrolled in Medicare. Doctors and suppliers have to meet strict standards to enroll and stay enrolled in Medicare. If your doctors or suppliers aren't enrolled, Medicare won't pay the claims submitted by them.
It's also important to ask your suppliers if they participate in Medicare before you get therapeutic shoes. If suppliers are participating suppliers, they must accept assignment. If suppliers are enrolled in Medicare but aren't "participating," they may choose not to accept assignment. If suppliers don't accept assignment, there's no limit on the amount they can charge you.
The doctor who treats your diabetes must certify your need for therapeutic shoes or inserts.
The shoes and inserts must be prescribed by a podiatrist (foot doctor), or other qualified doctor and provided by one of these:
- A podiatrist
- An orthotist
- A prosthetist
- A pedorthist
- Another qualified individual
