Opinion: Somebody tell me when !
Saunders, Jan CPO
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Title:
Opinion: Somebody tell me when !
Creator:
Saunders, Jan CPO
Date:
1/10/2009
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After reading? about a new requirement for a surety bond for O&P?(possibly, but?not in concrete, yet) Proves to me that practitioners and our national organizations just don't get it...(sorry for being rude)? A priority, in fact the top priority must be to separate O&P from DME! Individually it is much harder to act as one then part of a group, but we all must do something. Do you now ?after all your hard work? to become practitioners want to be considered? DME salespeople, or maybe better yet a Vendor? that is?the way our government and payors see us.?Have we as a group ever figured out why PT's are so more respected by payors then we are? I'll tell you why, they are considered by third party payors to be Healthcare Professionals, not providers of Equipment. Until we force this to change at the government level then the third party level,?we will always be treated as those Fraudulent guys in DME who ambulance chase wheelchairs and sell DME equipment to people who don't ne!
ed them instead of Providers of patient care services. I am not at all saying all DME providers are frauds, but we all know the lion share of fraud in DME is directly reflected on us as we are part of the DMEPOS We need to put as much money are possible to start the largest, strongest initiative we have ever seen in P&O?to get this done right now,?do something now. Who should head this up? Where would the funds to do this come from??we need a focused task force group with resources and the focus of a guided missal, without the distractions of so many other organizations duties.
Call anyone you know to spread the word, the listserver is a great tool, but we need to reach far beyond the?listserver, so let everyone you talk to professionally know,?call all of the national organizations? ?they get behind this effort, if they want to collect you money, the money won't be there long if we don't change?the DMEPOS classification,?call?anyone you or your patients may know who have a contact to any political person, tell your patients if they want to see improvements in there care? R&D, componentry which allows them to funtion better and mory efficiently, and a host of other reasons. We need there?help.?
WE DO GREAT WORK FOR PEOPLE WHO REALLY NEED US.?
Jan Saunders CPO,LPO
ed them instead of Providers of patient care services. I am not at all saying all DME providers are frauds, but we all know the lion share of fraud in DME is directly reflected on us as we are part of the DMEPOS We need to put as much money are possible to start the largest, strongest initiative we have ever seen in P&O?to get this done right now,?do something now. Who should head this up? Where would the funds to do this come from??we need a focused task force group with resources and the focus of a guided missal, without the distractions of so many other organizations duties.
Call anyone you know to spread the word, the listserver is a great tool, but we need to reach far beyond the?listserver, so let everyone you talk to professionally know,?call all of the national organizations? ?they get behind this effort, if they want to collect you money, the money won't be there long if we don't change?the DMEPOS classification,?call?anyone you or your patients may know who have a contact to any political person, tell your patients if they want to see improvements in there care? R&D, componentry which allows them to funtion better and mory efficiently, and a host of other reasons. We need there?help.?
WE DO GREAT WORK FOR PEOPLE WHO REALLY NEED US.?
Jan Saunders CPO,LPO
Citation
Saunders, Jan CPO, “Opinion: Somebody tell me when !,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 1, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/229990.
