Foot care nursing
American Nurse
JULY 9, 2025
Medicare expects beneficiaries or caregivers to perform routine foot care (nail trimming and shaving, paring, cutting, and removal of calluses [keratoma and tyloma] and corns [heloma]), so it’s excluded from coverage. CFCNs providing routine foot care must collect payment from the patient if health insurance doesn’t provide coverage.
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