abc
Linda Winke & Ken Boggs
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Collection
Title:
abc
Creator:
Linda Winke & Ken Boggs
Date:
3/7/2004
Text:
Mr. Yackovich,
This IS a direct response to your post.
What I understand you to be saying is that it is up to ME as an orthotist to provide the highest quality patient care that I possibly can, but it is NOT up to ABC to ensure that everyone else does the same? And if patients want to be protected and ensured that they are seeing qualified providers, they should do background checks into the education of every health care provider that they see? Then WHAT exactly IS the function of ABC? Credentialing is about protecting the patient--none of the concerned practitioners who are making their opinions heard have yet expressed concerns about who is filling what position. The point is, if a person is certified by ABC, that should be all that a patient needs to know to be at ease about their qualifications. Otherwise we could all just hire P.R. firms to convince patients of our skills.
As for your list of concerns over what has been happening recently, how does unification directly affect ANY of those issues? Lowering minimum standards is going to increase spinal reimbursements?!?! How? Competitive bidding will now disappear? Why? If anything this is the beginning of a list of what ABC has failed to accomplish and only makes it clearer how ineffectual the organization has been lately. Would unification help? Maybe, but what is going on right now is no answer and I'm still waiting for someone to tell me one way it is going to improve anything!
Kenneth R. Boggs L.O.
This IS a direct response to your post.
What I understand you to be saying is that it is up to ME as an orthotist to provide the highest quality patient care that I possibly can, but it is NOT up to ABC to ensure that everyone else does the same? And if patients want to be protected and ensured that they are seeing qualified providers, they should do background checks into the education of every health care provider that they see? Then WHAT exactly IS the function of ABC? Credentialing is about protecting the patient--none of the concerned practitioners who are making their opinions heard have yet expressed concerns about who is filling what position. The point is, if a person is certified by ABC, that should be all that a patient needs to know to be at ease about their qualifications. Otherwise we could all just hire P.R. firms to convince patients of our skills.
As for your list of concerns over what has been happening recently, how does unification directly affect ANY of those issues? Lowering minimum standards is going to increase spinal reimbursements?!?! How? Competitive bidding will now disappear? Why? If anything this is the beginning of a list of what ABC has failed to accomplish and only makes it clearer how ineffectual the organization has been lately. Would unification help? Maybe, but what is going on right now is no answer and I'm still waiting for someone to tell me one way it is going to improve anything!
Kenneth R. Boggs L.O.
Citation
Linda Winke & Ken Boggs, “abc,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 1, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/222538.
