rough week...
Justin Foster
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Title:
rough week...
Creator:
Justin Foster
Date:
9/27/2002
Text:
>You just need to concentrate on your residency and less time on the
>computer,
>because you are making rediculous statements. Wait till you get in the real
>working world and especially owning your own practice before you make any
>more comments about competitive pricing.
Yikes!!!
I think this echoes the sentiment of many out there, so to the cheers of
thousands, I will take a break from the list, chagrined...
One thought, I finally found my way to the NAAOP website thanks to a list
post earlier this week, and found out that ...The language (from CMS
summary), for the first time, stated in writing that the competitive bidding
provision, Exempts all prosthetics and Exempts orthotic products that are
custom-made or custom-fitted.... I was a little shocked since the letters
advocated by AOPA et.al. seemed to be trying to fight for just this point,
which appears to have been already considered. Maybe everyone already knows
this, but it just hasn't seemed so... BTW, this post on the NAAOP website is
dated August, 2002... so it didn't just happen.
Thanks to everyone who responded, it really does help me(hopefully more than
just me) to understand what is going on. Even if it was just to say that I
am a moron, or my thought was proposterous, every thought was worthwhile to
share for the good of the whole! Hopefully all this will mean something.
I also read the US Code pertaining to Antitrust law, and there are
exemptions for labor organizations working for the common good, since labor
cannot be considered a commodity. So the only real crime in my (admittedly
moronic, proposterous) plan was the price-fixing part!!! Shoot, thought I
had something! But it doesn't seem to matter now, because as Mr. Barr said
awhile back leave the bidding to the wheelchair and hospital bed
suppliers... or something to that effect, it appears to have been made so.
Somebody tell us if we should still be mad?!?
Thanks, I really do mean that. It has been fun! I'm gonna go make legs
now...
Justin Foster
Prosthetic Resident
CIRS - Palo Alto
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>computer,
>because you are making rediculous statements. Wait till you get in the real
>working world and especially owning your own practice before you make any
>more comments about competitive pricing.
Yikes!!!
I think this echoes the sentiment of many out there, so to the cheers of
thousands, I will take a break from the list, chagrined...
One thought, I finally found my way to the NAAOP website thanks to a list
post earlier this week, and found out that ...The language (from CMS
summary), for the first time, stated in writing that the competitive bidding
provision, Exempts all prosthetics and Exempts orthotic products that are
custom-made or custom-fitted.... I was a little shocked since the letters
advocated by AOPA et.al. seemed to be trying to fight for just this point,
which appears to have been already considered. Maybe everyone already knows
this, but it just hasn't seemed so... BTW, this post on the NAAOP website is
dated August, 2002... so it didn't just happen.
Thanks to everyone who responded, it really does help me(hopefully more than
just me) to understand what is going on. Even if it was just to say that I
am a moron, or my thought was proposterous, every thought was worthwhile to
share for the good of the whole! Hopefully all this will mean something.
I also read the US Code pertaining to Antitrust law, and there are
exemptions for labor organizations working for the common good, since labor
cannot be considered a commodity. So the only real crime in my (admittedly
moronic, proposterous) plan was the price-fixing part!!! Shoot, thought I
had something! But it doesn't seem to matter now, because as Mr. Barr said
awhile back leave the bidding to the wheelchair and hospital bed
suppliers... or something to that effect, it appears to have been made so.
Somebody tell us if we should still be mad?!?
Thanks, I really do mean that. It has been fun! I'm gonna go make legs
now...
Justin Foster
Prosthetic Resident
CIRS - Palo Alto
_________________________________________________________________
Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail.
<URL Redacted>
Citation
Justin Foster, “rough week...,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 23, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/219704.
