Follow-up to: Medicare Announces Mandatory Accreditation Deadline

Warren Mays

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Follow-up to: Medicare Announces Mandatory Accreditation Deadline

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Warren Mays

Date:

12/20/2007

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Hello All,

 

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:
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There are some interesting organizations that have been approved, including:

 

-JCAHO

-National Association of Boards of Pharmacy

-Board of Orthotist/Prosthetist Certification

-The Compliance Team, Inc.

-ABC

-The National Board of Accreditation for Orthotic Suppliers

-Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities

-Community Health Accreditation Program

-HealthCare Quality Association on Accreditation

 

 

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.

 

Spend your dollars wisely.

 

Thank you for time.

 

 

Warren R Mays, CPO


                          

Citation

Warren Mays, “Follow-up to: Medicare Announces Mandatory Accreditation Deadline,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 23, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/228804.