Recognition to AOPA and Staff
Sam E. Hamontree
Description
Collection
Title:
Recognition to AOPA and Staff
Creator:
Sam E. Hamontree
Date:
12/21/2000
Text:
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.
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
Sam E. Hamontree, “Recognition to AOPA and Staff,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 7, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/215556.
