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Medicare Payment Rules

Agreement to Pay

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If Medicare is Primary, they will pay 80% off

allowable amount.

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Your supplemental Insurance may pay all or a portion of the remaining 20%.

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If you are a Medicaid patient and can prove financial hardship, the 20% can be waived.

There is a Medicare deductible of $135.00 at the beginning of every calendar year. If you have not met your deductible at the time shoes are billed, you will be responsible for that portion.

For further questions, please contact

Rhonda Jensen at

785-271-1221.

What is a diabetic shoe?

The purpose of a diabetic shoe is to protect the at-risk foot from developing ulcers, which can lead to infection and possible amputations.

A Medicare approved diabetic shoe must have:

a wide round toebox,

extra depth (deeper) for

protective inserts.

no seams in lining of vamps, and must

come in at least 3 different widths

You know how important good foot care is to people with diabetes. You probably also know that properly fitting shoes are one of the basic ways to protect your feet. What you may not know is how to find shoes that fit properly.

Finding well-fitting shoes seems simple enough, but the fact is many shoes are not suitable. They may the wrong shape for your feet. They may not be well constructed. They may not be available in the correct size.

Often, shoes are sold by inadequately trained sales staff. In many shoe stores, the sales staff is there primarily to ferry boxes of shoes back and forth and ring up sales. Proper size selection and fit is left up to the customer.

Here at Reuter's, we are with you long after the sale. We guarantee the fit on our shoes and also offer in-house modifications for those hard-to-fit feet.