Podiatry

Specialist Reports Back to Referring Clinician or Group to Close Referral Loop and Use of QCDR Data for Ongoing Practice Assessment and Improvements are two of the medium-weight activities to meet your Improvement Activities requirement. These activities also set you up to optimize your quality measures and increase business for your office.

For 2024, there are 11 new measures and 9 measures that have been retired.

“I had a patient call me worried about a possible diabetic foot infection. The patient has a history of below the knee amputation at the other limb and was panicked about the potential loss of limb. I worked them into the schedule that day and I am thinking about coding CPT 99058 in addition to the E/M code. Can I get paid for CPT 99058 and does it matter if the potential “infection” turned out to be not infected?”