Re: Recognition to AOPA and Staff
Joseph Elliott
Description
Collection
Title:
Re: Recognition to AOPA and Staff
Creator:
Joseph Elliott
Date:
12/21/2000
Text:
Thanks, Sam, for saying this so well. ALL of us need
to remember that we are a part of the rehabiliatation
medicine group and we need to use this legislation as
a stepping stone to true, continuing upgrading of our
credentialing status and recognition of our role in
the field.
Martha Rinker and the AOPA members who worked on this
legislation, and those who participate in O&P PAC and
OPLAN should feel good as we start the new year.
Joe Elliott, CP
--- Sam E. Hamontree < <Email Address Redacted> > wrote:
> I want to use this ListServ to express my
> appreciation and thanks to the
> AOPA staff, especially Martha Rinker, officers and
> committees (AOPA) for the
> tremendous amount of work put into the qualified
> provider legislation
> which has resulted in the final success. This
> project has been a long time
> in development. But for the organized O&P field, a
> major benefit in oh so
> many ways. I hope every orthotist-prosthetist and
> anyone involved in O&P
> recognizes the meaningfulness of this piece of
> legislation to, especially,
> patients but also to the practitioners who serve
> them.
>
> AOPA has taken a lot of heat from people within our
> field, as well as others
> who seem to think of themselves as within our field,
> for giving in to
> other interests such as BOC and the qualified
> provider language which
> allow the secretary to qualify others. Over time
> some have accused AOPA of
> selling out the ABC practitioner.
>
> I think what AOPA did was to take and support the
> very best legislation
> wording that could possibly have passed the congress
> and be signed into law
> by the president -- the absolute very best that
> could have been achieved.
> While it may not be exactly what anyone of us might
> like to have, it is most
> significant and extremely beneficial, again, to
> patients, the O&P field, and
> especially to the Medicare Program in dollar
> savings.
>
> My sincere thanks and appreciation to all of AOPA
> staff and others who
> worked so hard and diligently for so long to achieve
> this legislation!!
>
> Sam E. Hamontree, CP
> OrPro, Inc.
>
>
to remember that we are a part of the rehabiliatation
medicine group and we need to use this legislation as
a stepping stone to true, continuing upgrading of our
credentialing status and recognition of our role in
the field.
Martha Rinker and the AOPA members who worked on this
legislation, and those who participate in O&P PAC and
OPLAN should feel good as we start the new year.
Joe Elliott, CP
--- Sam E. Hamontree < <Email Address Redacted> > wrote:
> I want to use this ListServ to express my
> appreciation and thanks to the
> AOPA staff, especially Martha Rinker, officers and
> committees (AOPA) for the
> tremendous amount of work put into the qualified
> provider legislation
> which has resulted in the final success. This
> project has been a long time
> in development. But for the organized O&P field, a
> major benefit in oh so
> many ways. I hope every orthotist-prosthetist and
> anyone involved in O&P
> recognizes the meaningfulness of this piece of
> legislation to, especially,
> patients but also to the practitioners who serve
> them.
>
> AOPA has taken a lot of heat from people within our
> field, as well as others
> who seem to think of themselves as within our field,
> for giving in to
> other interests such as BOC and the qualified
> provider language which
> allow the secretary to qualify others. Over time
> some have accused AOPA of
> selling out the ABC practitioner.
>
> I think what AOPA did was to take and support the
> very best legislation
> wording that could possibly have passed the congress
> and be signed into law
> by the president -- the absolute very best that
> could have been achieved.
> While it may not be exactly what anyone of us might
> like to have, it is most
> significant and extremely beneficial, again, to
> patients, the O&P field, and
> especially to the Medicare Program in dollar
> savings.
>
> My sincere thanks and appreciation to all of AOPA
> staff and others who
> worked so hard and diligently for so long to achieve
> this legislation!!
>
> Sam E. Hamontree, CP
> OrPro, Inc.
>
>
Citation
Joseph Elliott, “Re: Recognition to AOPA and Staff,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 8, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/215553.
