Podiatry
Track DPM state licenses, ABFAS and ABPM board certifications, DEA renewals, and payer enrollments for every provider in your practice. Credentialing Now replaces spreadsheets with a system designed for podiatry.
Podiatric practices manage multiple board certifications, multi-state licensure, and DEA renewals alongside standard payer enrollment. Our platform keeps it all in one place.
Monitor Doctor of Podiatric Medicine license expiration dates, CE requirements, and renewal deadlines across every state where your podiatrists are licensed to practice.
Track American Board of Foot and Ankle Surgery (ABFAS) and American Board of Podiatric Medicine (ABPM) certification status, recertification cycles, and Continuous Certification (ConCert) requirements.
Track CAQH attestation cycles and manage commercial payer panel applications, follow-up notes, and revalidation deadlines so your billing stays uninterrupted.
Track DEA registration expiration and renewal for every DPM in your practice, including state controlled substance licenses that may have separate renewal cycles.
Track Medicare enrollment status and revalidation deadlines for your podiatrists. Get reminders well before due dates to prevent billing disruptions for routine foot care and surgical claims.
Upload hospital and ASC affiliation letters, support staff certifications, and other compliance records to each provider's file. Build custom checklists with reminders so onboarding and recurring renewals stay on track.
Add your DPMs and podiatric staff. Upload existing licenses, board certifications, DEA registrations, and payer enrollment confirmations. We'll help you migrate everything.
The platform monitors expiration dates for state licenses, ABFAS/ABPM certification cycles, DEA renewals, CAQH attestations, and Medicare revalidation. You'll get alerts well before anything lapses.
With every provider's credentials current across payers and state boards, your practice avoids claim denials, lapsed credentials, and the revenue disruptions that come with credentialing gaps.
Podiatry sits between medicine and surgery, and the credential file reflects it: two certifying boards, facility privileges for surgeons, and supplier enrollments most other specialties never touch.
DPMs are licensed by the state podiatric medical board — or the podiatry section of the state medical board — in every state where they practice, each with its own renewal cycle and CE hour requirements. Payer and facility applications ask for license numbers, issue dates, and any history of board action, so the full licensure record needs to stay current and retrievable.
Surgical podiatrists certify with the American Board of Foot and Ankle Surgery, which issues separate certifications in foot surgery and reconstructive rearfoot/ankle surgery; non-surgical podiatrists certify with the American Board of Podiatric Medicine. Hospitals and many payers ask for board status on every application, including whether the DPM is board qualified or board certified and where they are in the recertification cycle.
Podiatrists prescribing post-operative pain medication and other controlled substances need a DEA registration, renewed every three years. Several states add their own controlled-substance license with a separate renewal cycle, so the two registrations have to be tracked independently even though applications usually ask for both.
Surgical DPMs need privileges at every hospital and ambulatory surgery center where they operate. Privileging committees typically ask for case logs, board certification status, and a current malpractice certificate, and privileges come up for reappointment on the facility's own cycle — commonly every two years — independent of payer recredentialing.
Beyond standard Medicare Part B enrollment — with revalidation roughly every five years — podiatry practices that dispense therapeutic shoes for diabetic patients or wound-care supplies need a separate DMEPOS supplier enrollment. That enrollment has its own application, supplier standards, and revalidation cycle, and it is a common gap when a practice adds a diabetic shoe program.
Commercial payers pull application data from CAQH ProView, which must be re-attested every 120 days, and every application asks for a current certificate of insurance with limits and dates. Practices also need routine OIG and SAM.gov exclusion screening — Credentialing Now runs those checks monthly and records the results in the audit log.
ABFAS certifies foot surgery and, separately, reconstructive rearfoot/ankle surgery, while ABPM certifies podiatric medicine. A DPM does not need both — surgical podiatrists typically pursue ABFAS and non-surgical podiatrists ABPM. Hospitals commonly require a recognized board for privileges, and payer applications ask which board and whether the provider is board qualified or board certified.
Yes. Therapeutic shoes and inserts for diabetic patients bill to Medicare as DMEPOS, which requires a separate supplier enrollment distinct from the podiatrist's Part B enrollment. It comes with its own application, supplier standards, and revalidation cycle — a commonly missed step when a practice adds a diabetic shoe or wound-care supply program.
Commercial payer enrollment generally runs 60 to 150 days from a complete application. Hospital and ASC privileging for surgical podiatrists is a separate process on the facility's committee calendar, so both tracks should start as soon as a new DPM signs — neither one waits on the other.
The big recurring cycles are CAQH re-attestation every 120 days, DEA renewal every three years, Medicare revalidation roughly every five years, and hospital reappointment on each facility's cycle, commonly every two years. State license and CE deadlines run on their own state-specific calendars, which is why practices track all of these in one system.
See how Credentialing Now handles the complexity of podiatric credentialing — from board certification to multi-state licensure. Request a demo tailored to your practice.
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