Diabetic shoes & inserts
Shoes that protect your feet — and often cost you nothing.
Medicare Part B helps with therapeutic shoes and inserts for people who have diabetes-related foot problems and a prescription from their doctor. A lot of people who qualify have never been told. Checking costs you nothing, and there is no obligation to go through with it.
Who usually qualifies
You generally need all three of these. If you are not sure about any of them, that is exactly what Deborah will help you find out.
- 1A diagnosis of diabetes.
- 2At least one qualifying foot condition — nerve damage, poor circulation, a foot deformity, or a history of foot ulcers or sores.
- 3A written prescription and the required notes from the doctor treating your diabetes.
These are the usual requirements, not a guarantee. Your plan makes the final decision, and Deborah will never tell you it is approved before it is.
What Deborah walks you through
Nobody should have to figure this out from a pamphlet at the pharmacy counter.
It usually starts with your doctor
A prescription and a note in your chart about a qualifying foot condition — things like nerve damage, poor circulation, a deformity, or a history of sores — is normally what opens the door.
Therapeutic shoes are not just “wide shoes”
They are made specifically for people with diabetes-related foot problems: deeper toe boxes, removable inserts, and a fit that avoids rubbing the places that are most at risk.
Inserts are often part of it
Custom-molded or heat-molded inserts usually come with the shoes, and they are a big part of why the shoe works in the first place.
Fitting and paperwork both matter
A pair that does not fit properly helps nobody, and the documentation has to be right or the claim comes back. Both ends of that are the part Deborah helps with.
Have your feet been bothering you?
Numbness, burning, a sore that healed slowly, or shoes that just do not fit right any more — those are worth mentioning to your doctor, and worth checking on your plan.
Check if I qualify