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Promulgated on May 19, the RIST law makes it possible to consult health professionals without going through the doctor’s box. For podiatrists, this means that they can now prescribe orthopedic insoles and pay for care for people with diabetes without a doctor’s prescription.
Did you know ? Consulting your podiatrist, and getting reimbursed, without going through your attending physician has been possible since the end of May. The Rist law promulgated on May 19, 2023 aims to provide better access to care and to facilitate the care pathway for patients. A law that gives new powers to health professionals who take care of your feet.
Diabetes, orthopedic insoles: reimbursed procedures prescribed by the podiatrist
Consulted on the subject, Jean-Loup Lafeuillade, podiatrist, explains to us concretely the changes induced by this law.
“The Rist law made to improve access to care now allows us two things: patients can go directly to podiatrists to benefit from a podiatric assessment and the realization of a plantar orthosis, without going through the attending physician box. Our order now opens the same rights to reimbursement.”
In this case, a knee foot problem, which requires a podiatric assessment, can be done directly with the podiatrist. The assessment is however communicated to the attending physician who receives a summary and the type of equipment performed. The link is therefore never broken.
The other attribution concerns diabetic patients: “Access to care for diabetic patients and management of the POD key, which is conventional pedicure care, can also now be carried out directly with the podiatrist, who will grade the problem and open the right to a number of sessions. reimbursed by health insurance says the podiatrist.
Simplified act and key recognition
If the Rist law could have made some general practitioners cringe during its passage, in the field, Jean-Loup Lafeuillade rather notes real progress, whether for patients or for practitioners.
“These new assignments simplify things and save time for patients… as well as for doctors! Of course, in theory, general practitioners were up in arms against the law, because it represents a loss of acts. But in rural areas, the doctors themselves confirm that they do not know much about podiatry, and find themselves relieved. This is progress for patients who have to see a single professional, a time saver, but also a major step forward for the recognition of our profession” he concludes.