Thanks for your responses. There was an article in the most recent Medical Economics talking about how many more hours we are all spending doing the busy work associated with patient care. I do make patients come in whenever I fill out any forms. I go at such a pace and work such long hours, I just cannot fill out forms outside of a visit. Esp with FMLA and other forms, I have found it helps to have the patient there. That way I understand exactly what they need and they know exactly what I am going to put in the form.
I am definitely in a HPSA area and rural so I may be able to do the shoes. Will have to look into it more. For many of my indigent patients, this is the only pair of shoes they get each year. I have so many diabetics with complications, I often end up cutting down callouses and debriding ulcers. The shoes often help.
I seem to get forms from the podiatrists to sign. I am going to check to find out why. It seems that they should be able to sign off on the forms. If they can, I may send them all to the podiatrist.
I'm going to look into this further. There must be some money in it because there are a lot of vendors in my area. I always steer the patients away from the mail order companies.
Thanks again for the input
