Re: [Fwd: Re: US-POLITICS: Competitive Bidding in O&P]
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Re: [Fwd: Re: US-POLITICS: Competitive Bidding in O&P]
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In a message dated 2/4/00 11:17:09 PM Central Standard Time, <Email Address Redacted>
writes:
<< With all due respect, my point is this, What good does it due to police
ourselves when the appropriate agencies will not deal with or address the
problems? >>
Reed, I understand your point, but I was just curious to see what kind of
response I would get when I touched on some areas that I know to be problem
areas and have been hearing about for years from those within our own
profession.
I agree about the agencies not wanting to do anything. I remember speaking
with one case management worker about finding a prosthetist to fit a standard
arm prosthesis. Seems the amputee was fit with a $75,000 powered arm that was
in the closet and now they wanted to spend more money to try a standard cable
powered arm. When I expressed some concern as someone who pays insurance
premiums she did not want to talk any more. This is only one of four similar
arm prostheses stores that I have been told in the last two years.
Seems the agencies have become a party to this problem by their lack of
knowledge on prosthetics and to address it now would reflect badly on them
and their agency. It is better to maintain the status quo then to expose ones
self to further investigation and possible action.
I really would like to see us as a true profession start to address these
problems internally before some outside agency does as I do not want to see
more controls then we already have imposed upon us. I know this may only be
wishful thinking but I still believe in the profession of O&P and what it can
be.
Al Pike, CP
writes:
<< With all due respect, my point is this, What good does it due to police
ourselves when the appropriate agencies will not deal with or address the
problems? >>
Reed, I understand your point, but I was just curious to see what kind of
response I would get when I touched on some areas that I know to be problem
areas and have been hearing about for years from those within our own
profession.
I agree about the agencies not wanting to do anything. I remember speaking
with one case management worker about finding a prosthetist to fit a standard
arm prosthesis. Seems the amputee was fit with a $75,000 powered arm that was
in the closet and now they wanted to spend more money to try a standard cable
powered arm. When I expressed some concern as someone who pays insurance
premiums she did not want to talk any more. This is only one of four similar
arm prostheses stores that I have been told in the last two years.
Seems the agencies have become a party to this problem by their lack of
knowledge on prosthetics and to address it now would reflect badly on them
and their agency. It is better to maintain the status quo then to expose ones
self to further investigation and possible action.
I really would like to see us as a true profession start to address these
problems internally before some outside agency does as I do not want to see
more controls then we already have imposed upon us. I know this may only be
wishful thinking but I still believe in the profession of O&P and what it can
be.
Al Pike, CP
Citation
“Re: [Fwd: Re: US-POLITICS: Competitive Bidding in O&P],” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 1, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/213778.
