NOMA is here ! Where are your professional and credentialing Associations ????
Anthony T. Barr
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Title:
NOMA is here ! Where are your professional and credentialing Associations ????
Creator:
Anthony T. Barr
Date:
4/20/2002
Text:
Here is my name, my credentials, and my opinion !
Name: Tony Barr
Credentials: amputee ( there are no consumer members of NOMA, AAOP or AOPA)
Mission: TO advocate on behalf of amputees to better ensure consumer
protection thru state and federal regulation.
TO better ensure that only properly qualified providers of O&P services can
be reimbursed for these services in order to further motivate and encourage
insurance providers to provide proper coverage for comprehensive O&P health
care services.
Opinion!
No one is responsible!!
Not AOPA ,AAOP,NCAAOP nor the ABC. It was those big bad guys from NOMA .
You know the ones without faces , names or standards.
Isn't that convienient?
Of course NOMAs members are all most likely members of AOPA .
Now lets look at the facts .
The ABC and AAOP boards were made aware
of this situation in October almost two months before passage of the Harkin
bill
.
Yet AAOP members were told nothing. Why?
Were they afraid we would call our representatives and senators to fight for
them demanding that
educational standards be introduced to qualified provider language?
Secondly , AOPA knows that they need a fall guy , I believe that NOMA is a
partner to
them. They can blame NOMA .Otherwise AOPA would loose further support from
AAOP business owners and members for not supporting the ABC standards .
AOPA counts on lobbying money from AAOP member owned businesses and
individuals.
Lastly , it clearly wasn't the fault of the BOC , PT's or OTs.
AOPA introduced and supported the language recognizing certifications
rather that educational standards knowing that it would qualify practically
everyone to practice O and P. In this way BOC and the others would
qualify.That was their goal .It took the ABC credentialed individual down
a notch . They couldn't get these organizations to consolidate two years
ago and
they needed to get rid of the threat. They totally raped them by taking
away the value of their training. All without a shot being fired! VERY
SLICK.
If AOPA truly represents ABC , AAOP and the industry legislatively and AAOP
and ABC
voted against it, why didn't they try to kill or table the bill until such a
time an agreement could be reached?
There is no way if all the disabled groups in the US came together they
would be able to stop BOC PT's or OT's from being qualified providers.
There are no educational standards.BY DESIGN.
I have the outmost respect and admiration of this profession and for those
that support advocacy for regulation and better patient protection.
Certainly you can see thru this deception.
The tail , the industry, is wagging the dog, the profession.
It is a direct assault of the effectiveness of state and federal
regulation and an attempt to sabotage established and successful regulation
efforts.
Name: Tony Barr
Credentials: amputee ( there are no consumer members of NOMA, AAOP or AOPA)
Mission: TO advocate on behalf of amputees to better ensure consumer
protection thru state and federal regulation.
TO better ensure that only properly qualified providers of O&P services can
be reimbursed for these services in order to further motivate and encourage
insurance providers to provide proper coverage for comprehensive O&P health
care services.
Opinion!
No one is responsible!!
Not AOPA ,AAOP,NCAAOP nor the ABC. It was those big bad guys from NOMA .
You know the ones without faces , names or standards.
Isn't that convienient?
Of course NOMAs members are all most likely members of AOPA .
Now lets look at the facts .
The ABC and AAOP boards were made aware
of this situation in October almost two months before passage of the Harkin
bill
.
Yet AAOP members were told nothing. Why?
Were they afraid we would call our representatives and senators to fight for
them demanding that
educational standards be introduced to qualified provider language?
Secondly , AOPA knows that they need a fall guy , I believe that NOMA is a
partner to
them. They can blame NOMA .Otherwise AOPA would loose further support from
AAOP business owners and members for not supporting the ABC standards .
AOPA counts on lobbying money from AAOP member owned businesses and
individuals.
Lastly , it clearly wasn't the fault of the BOC , PT's or OTs.
AOPA introduced and supported the language recognizing certifications
rather that educational standards knowing that it would qualify practically
everyone to practice O and P. In this way BOC and the others would
qualify.That was their goal .It took the ABC credentialed individual down
a notch . They couldn't get these organizations to consolidate two years
ago and
they needed to get rid of the threat. They totally raped them by taking
away the value of their training. All without a shot being fired! VERY
SLICK.
If AOPA truly represents ABC , AAOP and the industry legislatively and AAOP
and ABC
voted against it, why didn't they try to kill or table the bill until such a
time an agreement could be reached?
There is no way if all the disabled groups in the US came together they
would be able to stop BOC PT's or OT's from being qualified providers.
There are no educational standards.BY DESIGN.
I have the outmost respect and admiration of this profession and for those
that support advocacy for regulation and better patient protection.
Certainly you can see thru this deception.
The tail , the industry, is wagging the dog, the profession.
It is a direct assault of the effectiveness of state and federal
regulation and an attempt to sabotage established and successful regulation
efforts.
Citation
Anthony T. Barr, “NOMA is here ! Where are your professional and credentialing Associations ????,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 7, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/218870.
