Re: Follow-up to: Medicare Announces Mandatory Accreditation Deadline

Re: Follow-up to: Medicare Announces Mandatory Accreditation Deadline

Wil Haines

12/20/2007

Hello Colleagues and Guests,

It would be interesting to see what the qualifications and other
requirements are to be accredited by each of the organizations on
Medicare's list. It would also be interesting to find out who is
responsible for defining Medicare's credentialing standards. Thanks for
the post Warren.

Wil Haines, CPO
MaxCare Bionics
Indianapolis, IN





Warren Mays wrote:
> Hello All,
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> After my post yesterday, my office manager did a little investigative work
> and found a list of the accreditation organizations approved for suppliers
> of orthotic and prosthetic devices. You can read the list for yourselves by
> going to the following link on the Medicare website:
> <URL Redacted>
> n_Organizatio
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> There are some interesting organizations that have been approved, including:
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> -JCAHO
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> -National Association of Boards of Pharmacy
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> -Board of Orthotist/Prosthetist Certification
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> -The Compliance Team, Inc.
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> -ABC
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> -The National Board of Accreditation for Orthotic Suppliers
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> -Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities
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> -Community Health Accreditation Program
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> -HealthCare Quality Association on Accreditation
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> I have no idea what it might cost to receive your facility accreditation
> from one of the non-ABC entities. You might be able to save some money by
> checking with some of these folks. Meantime, I assume that ABC is working on
> our behalf to make sure that Medicare is doing their homework to ensure that
> each facility and individual out there providing O and P services has been
> properly trained, and that the facility accreditations being offered by
> these other organizations is more than a simple money-driven rubber
> stamping.
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> Spend your dollars wisely.
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> Thank you for time.
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> Warren R Mays, CPO
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