Re: CPO Management position
Paul T Webber
Description
Collection
Title:
Re: CPO Management position
Creator:
Paul T Webber
Date:
2/24/2000
Text:
Good luck, with the licensing requirement you have shrunk your available
pool to miniscule amounts and increased your cost of doing business, leaving
patients with an ever decreasing ability to have competent patient care, and
the person who can apply for your job meet the state qualifications will be
able to demand a much higher salary do to the laws of supply and demand.
See licensing is a wonderful adjunct to the O&P profession. Like most
everything be careful what you ask for as you might just get it. A CPO will
have to pay $1200.00 on top of ABC, Academy dues ( I would hope) as well.
The cost of running a licensing board in a small state further burdens the
public as public money has to be spent on licensing a small board of
professionals. This is probably not even needed as the O&P profession has
the lowest amount of fraud and abuse in the whole medical field. Remember
to eliminate DME when you talk fraud and abuse numbers. The good part of
licensing the eliminating of competition from manufacturers reps, like they
have been able to do in FLA. is good, the part I dislike is the increase in
government intrusion into the profession, and the cost to the practitioner,
facility and the public. In California the government of the state has
decided to eliminate small licensing boards as they are a drain on the
public coffers. Licensing in O&P in CA is under discussion right now, AOPA
and the Academy are quiet or neutral on the position, I understand the need
for quality and professional qualifications to practice that is not the
issue. O&P is facing a dilemma where if following WA guidelines the
available practitioner to patient load is going to increase immensely, there
are more losses in the profession to retirement burn out etc and the
population is growing older and more active which will mean a higher demand
for services, the need for practitioners is going increase without any means
to fill the need, this could backfire on the profession as groups with far
more clout and members, PT, OTs PA Docs you name it will jump on the
bandwagon, how this is going to improve patient care I am not sure, when
techs find out how valuable they are in the machinery they will be able to
demand a higher wage as is proper and the drain on the system will increase.
To start licensing without a means to gain licensing potential is harmful to
the public safety.
Paul
----- Original Message -----
From: < <Email Address Redacted> >
To: < <Email Address Redacted> >
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: CPO Management position
> Hi everybody,
>
> I am still in need of a certified prosthetist and orthotist with
management
> skills. For those of you who wish uproot to the great (and sunny!)
Seattle,
> send me an email.
>
> Regards,
>
> John Hattingh CP
>
>
pool to miniscule amounts and increased your cost of doing business, leaving
patients with an ever decreasing ability to have competent patient care, and
the person who can apply for your job meet the state qualifications will be
able to demand a much higher salary do to the laws of supply and demand.
See licensing is a wonderful adjunct to the O&P profession. Like most
everything be careful what you ask for as you might just get it. A CPO will
have to pay $1200.00 on top of ABC, Academy dues ( I would hope) as well.
The cost of running a licensing board in a small state further burdens the
public as public money has to be spent on licensing a small board of
professionals. This is probably not even needed as the O&P profession has
the lowest amount of fraud and abuse in the whole medical field. Remember
to eliminate DME when you talk fraud and abuse numbers. The good part of
licensing the eliminating of competition from manufacturers reps, like they
have been able to do in FLA. is good, the part I dislike is the increase in
government intrusion into the profession, and the cost to the practitioner,
facility and the public. In California the government of the state has
decided to eliminate small licensing boards as they are a drain on the
public coffers. Licensing in O&P in CA is under discussion right now, AOPA
and the Academy are quiet or neutral on the position, I understand the need
for quality and professional qualifications to practice that is not the
issue. O&P is facing a dilemma where if following WA guidelines the
available practitioner to patient load is going to increase immensely, there
are more losses in the profession to retirement burn out etc and the
population is growing older and more active which will mean a higher demand
for services, the need for practitioners is going increase without any means
to fill the need, this could backfire on the profession as groups with far
more clout and members, PT, OTs PA Docs you name it will jump on the
bandwagon, how this is going to improve patient care I am not sure, when
techs find out how valuable they are in the machinery they will be able to
demand a higher wage as is proper and the drain on the system will increase.
To start licensing without a means to gain licensing potential is harmful to
the public safety.
Paul
----- Original Message -----
From: < <Email Address Redacted> >
To: < <Email Address Redacted> >
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 6:47 PM
Subject: Re: CPO Management position
> Hi everybody,
>
> I am still in need of a certified prosthetist and orthotist with
management
> skills. For those of you who wish uproot to the great (and sunny!)
Seattle,
> send me an email.
>
> Regards,
>
> John Hattingh CP
>
>
Citation
Paul T Webber, “Re: CPO Management position,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 25, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/213625.
