responses to POD question - who can sign ?
Andrew Cinque CPO
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Title:
responses to POD question - who can sign ?
Creator:
Andrew Cinque CPO
Date:
8/11/2015
Text:
So here are the responses so far. Regarding one, pertaining to if anyone
has financial benefit but�that's a little vague. Technically, anyone
involved in the clinic situation is trying to get their job done and
getting this paperwork signed is important. Granted they might not have
direct financial benefit to the actual appliance, but still getting a
signature is part of what needs to happen.
And again, just to be clear, a clinic nurse or clinic coordinator might
not have any relationship to the patient other than within the clinic
environment, same with the Dr., or PT, so can they sign, but then there
is that financial benefit thing again. So what are we defining as a
relationship? And if it is not necessarily family, and the group home
staff can sign, what makes them any different than the PT or clinic nurse
/ coordinator as all�professionals l named here�have an
interest and some describable relationship to the patient.
This is the deal, plain and simple:
I am involved in clinics with moderate to very high volume and I'm
talking 10-30-50 patients being seen within a few hours or day's time.
Even if only 1/3rd of those end up to be deliveries, it is still a
significant amount and usually at the end of the clinic I might hand off
many POD forms to a clinic/patient representative, most often
a PT or Clinic nurse, and that person will sign off 1-2-3 on all those
forms and may not have even seen any of these patients personally but
they know what went on. At the end of the day, I have the forms signed
with someone's signature on them. Is this risky ? I think� know the
answer.
�
Andrew
has financial benefit but�that's a little vague. Technically, anyone
involved in the clinic situation is trying to get their job done and
getting this paperwork signed is important. Granted they might not have
direct financial benefit to the actual appliance, but still getting a
signature is part of what needs to happen.
And again, just to be clear, a clinic nurse or clinic coordinator might
not have any relationship to the patient other than within the clinic
environment, same with the Dr., or PT, so can they sign, but then there
is that financial benefit thing again. So what are we defining as a
relationship? And if it is not necessarily family, and the group home
staff can sign, what makes them any different than the PT or clinic nurse
/ coordinator as all�professionals l named here�have an
interest and some describable relationship to the patient.
This is the deal, plain and simple:
I am involved in clinics with moderate to very high volume and I'm
talking 10-30-50 patients being seen within a few hours or day's time.
Even if only 1/3rd of those end up to be deliveries, it is still a
significant amount and usually at the end of the clinic I might hand off
many POD forms to a clinic/patient representative, most often
a PT or Clinic nurse, and that person will sign off 1-2-3 on all those
forms and may not have even seen any of these patients personally but
they know what went on. At the end of the day, I have the forms signed
with someone's signature on them. Is this risky ? I think� know the
answer.
�
Andrew
Citation
Andrew Cinque CPO, “responses to POD question - who can sign ?,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 1, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/237630.
