Re: Bypassing Orthotists
Gingras, Ron
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Re: Bypassing Orthotists
Creator:
Gingras, Ron
Date:
2/9/2006
Text:
As long as you look at licensure as a way to get reinbursement and to
exclude others for financial reasons you have looked passed the most
valid reasons for having it. Practitioner qualifications, accountability
, protection of the patient from untrained or inadequately trained
individuals and or unscrupulous individuals. Licensure is first about
the patient but from reading your email , it is obvious you think it is
primarily about something else $$$$$$ .To me that makes you the same as
the others you are criticizing. You first have to get the benefits of
licensure strait in your own mind, you do it for the right reasons and
then the rest will eventually shake down.It is not about the money
first.
Ron
-----Original Message-----
From: Orthotics and Prosthetics List [mailto:<Email Address Redacted>] On
Behalf Of Joyce Perrone
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 7:56 AM
To: <Email Address Redacted>
Subject: [OANDP-L] Bypassing Orthotists
EBI, Donjoy, Marquis -- all have put items on patients using
non-certified orthotists. This has been going on for a very long time.
And not just low-level devices (stock and bill) but more complex items,
as well. Donjoy in Pittsburgh has been great with working together with
the orthotist community, but I've not seen as great an effort
Nationally. As long as they can bill Medicare, and every other provider
out there, I'm sure they will do this. My question to the group - WILL
LICENSURE HELP THIS??? For those of you in states that have licensure -
has it helped you and HOW has it helped?? I think it is important for
everyone to have a clear understanding of this and if it is of help,
then to get on the bandwagon and pay to get licensure in your state. We
do not have it yet - and I am curious as what those of you with it have
experienced.
Joyce J Perrone
De La Torre O&P, Inc & PROMISE Consulting 300 Alpha Drive Pgh PA 15238
412-599-1112
exclude others for financial reasons you have looked passed the most
valid reasons for having it. Practitioner qualifications, accountability
, protection of the patient from untrained or inadequately trained
individuals and or unscrupulous individuals. Licensure is first about
the patient but from reading your email , it is obvious you think it is
primarily about something else $$$$$$ .To me that makes you the same as
the others you are criticizing. You first have to get the benefits of
licensure strait in your own mind, you do it for the right reasons and
then the rest will eventually shake down.It is not about the money
first.
Ron
-----Original Message-----
From: Orthotics and Prosthetics List [mailto:<Email Address Redacted>] On
Behalf Of Joyce Perrone
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 7:56 AM
To: <Email Address Redacted>
Subject: [OANDP-L] Bypassing Orthotists
EBI, Donjoy, Marquis -- all have put items on patients using
non-certified orthotists. This has been going on for a very long time.
And not just low-level devices (stock and bill) but more complex items,
as well. Donjoy in Pittsburgh has been great with working together with
the orthotist community, but I've not seen as great an effort
Nationally. As long as they can bill Medicare, and every other provider
out there, I'm sure they will do this. My question to the group - WILL
LICENSURE HELP THIS??? For those of you in states that have licensure -
has it helped you and HOW has it helped?? I think it is important for
everyone to have a clear understanding of this and if it is of help,
then to get on the bandwagon and pay to get licensure in your state. We
do not have it yet - and I am curious as what those of you with it have
experienced.
Joyce J Perrone
De La Torre O&P, Inc & PROMISE Consulting 300 Alpha Drive Pgh PA 15238
412-599-1112
Citation
Gingras, Ron, “Re: Bypassing Orthotists,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 2, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/226148.
