Trivia The cost of doing business today
Tom Masters
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Title:
Trivia The cost of doing business today
Creator:
Tom Masters
Date:
3/7/2013
Text:
After reading the article North Carolina Gave Soldier a Leg to Stand On in
the O & P Business News, March 2013, I couldn't resist running the numbers.
An exoskeletal BK with external joints, thigh lacer and SACH foot cost
$52.46 ( in 1866). In today's dollars, acording to Measuring Worth
( <URL Redacted> ), that leg
would/should cost ~$12,400.00(using production worker compensation).
Billing out with Area 'D' allowables for the same leg: U & C $4153.45
That's 33.49% behind inflation.
Did someone say the government is woried about how much a prosthesis costs
them?
the O & P Business News, March 2013, I couldn't resist running the numbers.
An exoskeletal BK with external joints, thigh lacer and SACH foot cost
$52.46 ( in 1866). In today's dollars, acording to Measuring Worth
( <URL Redacted> ), that leg
would/should cost ~$12,400.00(using production worker compensation).
Billing out with Area 'D' allowables for the same leg: U & C $4153.45
That's 33.49% behind inflation.
Did someone say the government is woried about how much a prosthesis costs
them?
Citation
Tom Masters, “Trivia The cost of doing business today,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 25, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/234910.
