Re: US_Politics
Paul T Webber
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Re: US_Politics
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Paul T Webber
Date:
1/12/2000
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Why would you want to get licensure? You are only going to incur more costs
to you and you patients as the licensing board will not be self supporting
unless the fee is extravagant. You are not going to be able to exclude PTs
& OTs. The tax payers, you included, will have to come up with the cost of
running a licensure board. You won't keep BOC Certifies from getting
licenses, the grandfather clause is going to include the very people you
want to exclude, there is no evidence that a license protects the consumer
as the most highly educated are the ones statistically that are the most
fraudulent. Wal-mart & other DME outfits are still going to sell OTS type
stuff. PAs and Docs will still sell orthoses as they are already licensed to
that most likely. You cannot afford to come up with a test as it costs over
$150,000 just to support the exam effort per year at least and 1/2 a mil to
make one up, and who has that amount of time in OHIO, you? If so times must
be slow for you. You still must pay your dues to the ABC and the Academy I
would hope. If you have this amount of time and money why don't you
volunteer at the national level to see if the testing parameters for O&P are
fair and reasonable and that the consumer or patient is properly cared for?
What are the advantages of a license? I am a loss to see how it benefits
anybody. As an employer the costs are going to go up as the license cost
must be born by someone, and how are you going to get new practitioners in
your state. I have the choice to work in a state without a license or one
where I have to pay a license fee on top of my national dues, unless I am
missing something wonderful in Ohio my choice economically is pretty easy to
make. That makes your pool of candidates smaller and hence more expensive
in an era where reimbursements are going down. I would like this license
effort to be spent on getting the whole field reimbursed at a reasonable
level, that is the main fight we need not license lets band together to see
if we can save this field from extinction with only the national chains
providing service and then being able to call the shots when it comes to
the Mom & Pop provider, and contracts, without the competition the ability
to control reimbursement rates climbs. Their ability to control our
national office and our representative organization climbs as well. I am
not fearful of their influence yet but I see that they are growing stronger
in their influence in out national offices.
Paul <Email Address Redacted>
----- Original Message -----
From: < <Email Address Redacted> >
To: < <Email Address Redacted> >
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 4:14 PM
Subject: US_Politics
> I am happy to announce that Ohio House Bill 238, A Licensure Bill for
> Orthotists, Prosthetists and Pedorthitists, was introduced to the Ohio
Senate
> today by Senator Doug White.
> Thanks to all the Ohio O&P practitioners who have assisted in this effort
to
> date with both sweat and dollars. With a little luck, (and a few more
bucks)
> the bill should become law by June of this year.
> Ron Kidd, CPO
> Columbus, Ohio
>
>
to you and you patients as the licensing board will not be self supporting
unless the fee is extravagant. You are not going to be able to exclude PTs
& OTs. The tax payers, you included, will have to come up with the cost of
running a licensure board. You won't keep BOC Certifies from getting
licenses, the grandfather clause is going to include the very people you
want to exclude, there is no evidence that a license protects the consumer
as the most highly educated are the ones statistically that are the most
fraudulent. Wal-mart & other DME outfits are still going to sell OTS type
stuff. PAs and Docs will still sell orthoses as they are already licensed to
that most likely. You cannot afford to come up with a test as it costs over
$150,000 just to support the exam effort per year at least and 1/2 a mil to
make one up, and who has that amount of time in OHIO, you? If so times must
be slow for you. You still must pay your dues to the ABC and the Academy I
would hope. If you have this amount of time and money why don't you
volunteer at the national level to see if the testing parameters for O&P are
fair and reasonable and that the consumer or patient is properly cared for?
What are the advantages of a license? I am a loss to see how it benefits
anybody. As an employer the costs are going to go up as the license cost
must be born by someone, and how are you going to get new practitioners in
your state. I have the choice to work in a state without a license or one
where I have to pay a license fee on top of my national dues, unless I am
missing something wonderful in Ohio my choice economically is pretty easy to
make. That makes your pool of candidates smaller and hence more expensive
in an era where reimbursements are going down. I would like this license
effort to be spent on getting the whole field reimbursed at a reasonable
level, that is the main fight we need not license lets band together to see
if we can save this field from extinction with only the national chains
providing service and then being able to call the shots when it comes to
the Mom & Pop provider, and contracts, without the competition the ability
to control reimbursement rates climbs. Their ability to control our
national office and our representative organization climbs as well. I am
not fearful of their influence yet but I see that they are growing stronger
in their influence in out national offices.
Paul <Email Address Redacted>
----- Original Message -----
From: < <Email Address Redacted> >
To: < <Email Address Redacted> >
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 4:14 PM
Subject: US_Politics
> I am happy to announce that Ohio House Bill 238, A Licensure Bill for
> Orthotists, Prosthetists and Pedorthitists, was introduced to the Ohio
Senate
> today by Senator Doug White.
> Thanks to all the Ohio O&P practitioners who have assisted in this effort
to
> date with both sweat and dollars. With a little luck, (and a few more
bucks)
> the bill should become law by June of this year.
> Ron Kidd, CPO
> Columbus, Ohio
>
>
Citation
Paul T Webber, “Re: US_Politics,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 2, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/213584.
