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Diabetic shoes Part 2

To ensure that Medicare pays for your shoes, you must follow the steps below:

Your treating doctor must complete a certificate of medical necessity for the therapeutic shoes and document the need in your medical records. Do not order anything until you have visited your doctor – no matter what the sales person tells you. Continue reading

Diabetic shoes Part 1

Diabetic shoes, sometimes referred to as extra depth or therapeutic shoes, are specially designed shoes, or shoe inserts, intended to reduce the risk of skin breakdown in diabetics with co-existing foot disease. Continue reading