Re: WAKE UP CALL
jeff
Description
Collection
Title:
Re: WAKE UP CALL
Creator:
jeff
Date:
1/8/2001
Text:
Dear List,
I have been following this on going dialog for sometime, and find it most
interesting. I am an outsider to the industry, an insurance agent in Ohio. Over
the years I have had clients face many of the same problems you now face when
licensing laws change, similar trades try to capitalize on a the change. The
out come has usually been the same. The market shifts there is some loss of
revenue, but ultimately, regaining of the market. It has been my observation
that the public will always want to deal with professionals in any given field.
Generally they even pay slightly more for the service and advice of a
professional if the professional can validate the need.
In closing, I would recommend that the PT's and OT's check their insurance
policy's; it would be my guess they will have to purchase additional insurance
protection to cover this exposure.
Jeff Michalenok
Todd Griffin wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> In discussions regarding the new qualified provider legislation, several of
> you have stated in jest (partially, at least) that this listserv was nothing
> more than a soapbox from which to complain. Might I suggest you Doomsday
> predictors pause for a breath for one second and look at the big picture:
>
> 1. This bill did not open up a Pandora's box of new revenue potential for
> PTs and OTs. They had it all along and they knew it! Reality check: Do
> any of you see the rampant practice of O&P by any PT or OT outside their
> NORMAL scope of practice in your area? I seriously doubt it! The PTs and
> OTs were merely protecting the rights to practice that they already had, and
> wouldn't you if you were in there shoes?!?
>
> 2. As much as it must pain many of you to face this fact, they ARE
> qualified providers!! Does that mean that every PT or OT in the country is
> qualified to fabricate anything their heart desires? Of course not! If any
> of them wish to do anything beyond their NORMAL scope (i.e. prosthetics,
> halos, etc.), they had better make darn sure they are very competent at it!
> Because if they are not, a disgruntled patient or apalled O&P provider can
> turn them in to their state PT or OT licensure board, and they could lose
> their license to practice in that state!
>
> Everybody just take a few deep breaths, maybe ease off the caffeine a bit,
> and think. This bill can do nothing but help the O&P industry. Are PTs
> going to keep cutting into your knee brace business? Sure. Are OT's going
> to keep making custom orthoses for their hand patients? Of course. But you
> have no legal ground to stand on to demand that that right be taken from
> them. You now have the legal ground to do your job (which those of you in
> 46 states did not have if my count is correct), your new task (should you
> choose to accept it) is to get out there and earn the business. O&P has to
> give the doctors a reason to send the business to you, just like every other
> allied heath provider in the country!
>
> An outsider's $0.02!
>
> J. Todd Griffin MS, ATC
> _________________________________________________________________
> Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at <URL Redacted>
>
>
I have been following this on going dialog for sometime, and find it most
interesting. I am an outsider to the industry, an insurance agent in Ohio. Over
the years I have had clients face many of the same problems you now face when
licensing laws change, similar trades try to capitalize on a the change. The
out come has usually been the same. The market shifts there is some loss of
revenue, but ultimately, regaining of the market. It has been my observation
that the public will always want to deal with professionals in any given field.
Generally they even pay slightly more for the service and advice of a
professional if the professional can validate the need.
In closing, I would recommend that the PT's and OT's check their insurance
policy's; it would be my guess they will have to purchase additional insurance
protection to cover this exposure.
Jeff Michalenok
Todd Griffin wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> In discussions regarding the new qualified provider legislation, several of
> you have stated in jest (partially, at least) that this listserv was nothing
> more than a soapbox from which to complain. Might I suggest you Doomsday
> predictors pause for a breath for one second and look at the big picture:
>
> 1. This bill did not open up a Pandora's box of new revenue potential for
> PTs and OTs. They had it all along and they knew it! Reality check: Do
> any of you see the rampant practice of O&P by any PT or OT outside their
> NORMAL scope of practice in your area? I seriously doubt it! The PTs and
> OTs were merely protecting the rights to practice that they already had, and
> wouldn't you if you were in there shoes?!?
>
> 2. As much as it must pain many of you to face this fact, they ARE
> qualified providers!! Does that mean that every PT or OT in the country is
> qualified to fabricate anything their heart desires? Of course not! If any
> of them wish to do anything beyond their NORMAL scope (i.e. prosthetics,
> halos, etc.), they had better make darn sure they are very competent at it!
> Because if they are not, a disgruntled patient or apalled O&P provider can
> turn them in to their state PT or OT licensure board, and they could lose
> their license to practice in that state!
>
> Everybody just take a few deep breaths, maybe ease off the caffeine a bit,
> and think. This bill can do nothing but help the O&P industry. Are PTs
> going to keep cutting into your knee brace business? Sure. Are OT's going
> to keep making custom orthoses for their hand patients? Of course. But you
> have no legal ground to stand on to demand that that right be taken from
> them. You now have the legal ground to do your job (which those of you in
> 46 states did not have if my count is correct), your new task (should you
> choose to accept it) is to get out there and earn the business. O&P has to
> give the doctors a reason to send the business to you, just like every other
> allied heath provider in the country!
>
> An outsider's $0.02!
>
> J. Todd Griffin MS, ATC
> _________________________________________________________________
> Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at <URL Redacted>
>
>
Citation
jeff, “Re: WAKE UP CALL,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 2, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/215829.
