Re: Where's ACA ???

Re: Where's ACA ???

Leslie Duncan

4/3/2002

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-----Original Message-----
From: Orthotics and Prosthetics List [mailto:<Email Address Redacted>]On
Behalf Of Anthony T. Barr
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 4:41 PM
To: <Email Address Redacted>
Subject: [OANDP-L] Where's ACA ???


Appropriate for ACA to intervene is an gross understatement.
Practitioners and consumers together better get ACA off their butts or there
will be no coverage and a whole harder for amputees to survive with
mobility, let alone dignity !
ACA's $2.3 million in annual revenue could do a whole allot of advocating
if.............they wanted too!
Tony Barr
(Unhappy) Lifetime ACA Member

----- Original Message -----
From: Joseph R. Alessi < <Email Address Redacted> >
To: Amputee Information Network < <Email Address Redacted> >
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 4:08 PM
Subject: Re: Typical Politics

> Wayne,
>
> The change was made in the L Codes. To the best of my knowledge Gel
> Liners are still available through Medicare. The difference is that they
> are now billed by using three other codes. The only change I see is in
> the reimbursement to the practitioner. In stead of $1,340.00 dollars it
> is now 900-something.
>
> 900-something still represents a substantial profit margin when you
> consider the cost to even a small shop is only $700.00 and all you need
> to do is open the box and screw on the bolt. This change should have no
> effect on the amputee/end user. Unless their practitioner refuses to
> accept the lower profit margin. In which case I suggest they go
> somewhere else.
>
> Taking this into consideration, is it appropriate for the ACA to
> intervene when in fact there is no significant change to the amputee? I
> suggest we leave it to the various O and P organizations to lobby on
> their own behalf.
>
> Speaking solely as an amputation survivor,
>
> Joseph R. Alessi
>
>