Should PICA reduce Malpractice insurance to Podiatrists during the Global Pandemic due to the Coronavirus? Most Podiatrists probably think this question is easy; of course PICA should reduce it. After all a lot of Podiatrists are struggling financially right now and will have trouble affording the payments. Combine this with the fact that Podiatrists in most states are unable to perform surgical procedures at hospitals and surgery centers since they have been banned. This seems like an easy answer. Of course PICA should reduce malpractice insurance to Podiatrists due to Coronavirus.
However, like most things in Podiatry this isn’t just that easy. The fact is PICA isn’t worried about the 90% of Podiatrists that are going to behave and curtail their elective procedures and abide by state controls. But they are still going to have exposure to the 10% of Podiatrists that are going to be in such financial straits that they decide the bone saw that has been buried in their office drawers can still be effective and clean, and why the hell not can I do a bunion or hammer toe procedure in my office. Or the Podiatrist that decides to go in a Nursing Home with asymptomatic COVID infection and spread it to all the residents. Or heck the Podiatrist that is still bringing in 70 year olds to bust some crusties. The fact is every single person reading this right now knows a Podiatrist that they are certain is going to be doing the stuff listed above. So if you know people that are going to do it, well so does PICA. If you’re PICA sure the claims might go down but the claims that might be filed could be massive.
Oh, also we are about to enter a recession and a lot of bunions, hammer toes and multiple surgical procedures were performed in the first 6 months. Guess what, a lot of those people are now out of work and hard up for money. You know what’s a simple easy way to get a cash infusion? Sue a Podiatrist for malpractice. It’s an unfortunate side effect of recession but people who need money will try anything to get it including seeing Podiatrists. Heck, the only surgery being done right now by most Podiatrists is high risk Diabetic limb salvage, so yes, while you might think the answer is for PICA just to reduce payments for Podiatrists, as you can see the answer is not that simple.
TOENAILS! PODIATRY’S SALVATION, PODIATRY’S FALL.
was podiatry too irrelevant to fail?
Well, here’s an interesting diddy from PICA sent to my email: To our valued policyholders: Please be aware that the Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently began a nationwide audit of routine foot care services performed by podiatrists. Though the medical record requests will go to podiatrist offices like yours, the party actually being audited is the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and its contractors, not you. To conduct this study, the OIG is sending out 100 letters to podiatry offices nationwide requesting records for services provided between… Read more »
“GOTT SEI DANK”! I didn’t know what I was going to do. How was I going to get shoe inserts (aka orthotics) in my patients shoes during this COVID CALAMITY? Well, there’s always a greedy crook out there to turn plastic into GOLD and today we see KLM LABS are OPEN FOR BUSINESS! and there for us with ORTHOTIC TELEMED. We can now do our (fake useless, just for show) biomechquactical exam with its SCIENTIFIC ACCURATE measurements (ha) over the telephone. What a relief. I can still sell plastic garbage for multiples of what it cost me. Thank You KLM… Read more »
This flu hype thing was helpful in many ways—Only when the tide recedes, do we all get to see who was swimming naked said Buffet- others have used this quote. But it’s right on!!!
Aside from that little side effect called retinal blindness…. why not? Foot warts are a pandemic costing multi millions/year payable to TWADT’S. SAL ACID IS SO YESTERDAY PODIATRIC
Man oh man: Just Googled up—’Why aren’t podiatrists called up to help with this pandemic?” Got message returns from the foot club, a handful of pods. I can go on, but if I was in my twenties and dumb enough to go to the stupe site and ask: What are my chances I’d stick my finger in the electric socket. BTW there’s a sign in front of a pod school that says: FOR SALE…real cheap. R, I’d rather chew on zinc than take an anti-malarial med…shit, you can go blind from that!
HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE FOR REFRACTORY VIRALLY CAUSED PLANTAR WARTS! Who’s with me among the erudite, academic, researchers in the 9 foot franchise research laboratories?
Well What? Did you expect today to be that SOMEDAY? Sorry, it’s not. It’s just another boring wasted day in podiatry with NO ACTION PLAN. However NJ foot technician Robertozzi is eulogizing Alan Lewis for telling him “what he needed to know to “ascend through the chairs of the New Joyzz podiatric technician society. I’m sure the Krebs cycle nor split 2nd heart sounds in RBBB was part of that. It was how to enjoy a cigar, get the fattest Danish and book the best hotel suite. That’s the DIRTY CORE OF PODIATRY ALAN LEWIS PROBABLY TAUGHT HIM. For the… Read more »
Tom Hanks Disease Was the best thing that could happen to podiatry. Exposes all the realities and truths. The tide went out and we see who was swimming naked…….Hi Mollusk, mr what type of air purifier or filtration system is cheap to the rag mag. Maybe Call up your car insurance company and say you’re only using it for ‘leisure/groceries’ save 23 bucks prorated…. That’s the podiatric way. Thanks for the great advice cheapie. IF you’re that hard up for $23 mr foot “surgeon” tech, then something is very wrong. Shyster’s baseball cap: Brain EMpty. Robert that writing competition sounds… Read more »
High Risk Diabetic Limb Salvage? Yeah, there’s not much of that being done. Don’t think you could keep an office counting on those patients. Besides, real limb salvage requires vascular intervention WHICH NO PODIATRIST DOES. Not even the big, I’m RRA certified cigar smoking carpenters.