Tag: Custom Orthotics
MediScan launches mobile phone app for custom orthotics
September 25, 2024HME News Staff
TAMPA, Fla. – MediScan Custom Orthotics has launched a mobile phone application called MediScan that it says allows users to create the same medical-grade custom shoe inserts a podiatrist would normally prescribe, without the need to physically see a doctor. The company, which was founded by two Florida-based podiatrists and a longtime expert from the medical device industry, offers the same orthotic devices and custom shoe inserts a patient would normally receive from their podiatrist, without...
Noridian responds to orthotics inquiries
September 23, 2024HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – Noridian Healthcare Solutions has published an update for billing custom-fitted orthotics when no custom fitting is completed with no off-the-shelf equivalent available. “Due to recent inquiries from suppliers, it has come to our attention that some miscellaneous codes used for billing off-the-shelf orthotics, when a custom fit orthotic is provided but no custom fitting is performed, may require specific policy and laterality modifiers,” it states. These claims must...
HP makes inroads in custom orthotics market
October 3, 2018HME News Staff
SAN FRANCISCO - HP has formed a strategic alliance with Go 4-D, a provider of 3D printed medical orthotics, to modernize the process used to create custom orthotics. As part of the alliance, Go 4-D will distribute FitStation powered by HP throughout the North American market. HP's FitStation platform combines 3D foot scanning with gait analysis to create recommendations and 3D printed custom orthotics from a person's unique biomechanics. This will allow Go 4-D to manufacture comfortable, precise...
CMS looks to demote certified orthotic fitters
September 5, 2014Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
WASHINGTON - Stakeholders have sounded off on a CMS proposal that would prohibit certified orthotic fitters (COFs) from providing custom orthotics to Medicare beneficiaries.
The proposal states that custom-fitted, prefabricated orthotics may only be dispensed and billed by “individuals with specialized training”—orthotists, physical and occupational therapists, advanced-practice nurses and physicians.
“(COFs) will lose their livelihood and Medicare beneficiaries who...