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  Hundreds Attend Professional Baseball Game, Mobility Clinics Nearly 100 people attended an Össur-hosted night at the Louisville Bats vs. Indianapolis Indians minor league baseball game during the recent Amputee Coalition National Conference. Jake Adams, who has an upper-limb amputation, threw out the o...
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  Hanger Donates to Hurricane Irma Relief Efforts Hanger, Austin, Texas, will continue supporting American Red Cross disaster relief efforts by donating $10,000 to assist with Hurricane Irma relief efforts. Hanger will also match donations up to $10,000 donated via its Red Cross microsite  ...
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  ACPOC Calls for Abstracts The Association of Children's Prosthetic-Orthotic Clinics (ACPOC) has issued a call for abstracts from professionals interested in pediatric p rosthetics and orthotics for its 2018 Annual Meeting April 11-14, 2018 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In ad...
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  Creaform, Ottobock Form Partnership Creaform, Lévis, Canada , has signed an original equipment manufacturing agreement with Otto Bock HealthCare Gm bH, Duderstadt, Germany (aka Ottobock). Th e agreement will expand access and distribution of the Creaform Health Care Part...
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  Nova Care O&P Hosts First Climb Clinic Nova Care Orthotics & Prosthetics, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, recently hosted an Orthotic & Prosthetic Activities Foundation (OPAF) First Climb Clinic at Spooky Nook Sports, Manheim, Pennsylvania. The clinic was led by First Climb instructor...
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  RAND Study Shows Economic Value of Advanced Transfemoral Prostheses In spite of the advances in prosthetic technologies, payers—primarily the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services—have questioned the value of advanced prosthetic devices and related services. Payments for prosthetic devices decli...
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  NAAOP Webcast: Congress Returns to a Packed Legislative Agenda The National Association for the Advancement of Orthotics and Prosthetics (NAAOP) has released a webcast in which NAAOP General Counsel Peter Thomas, JD, discusses Congress' return to work this month and the daunting set of challenges it faces. A...
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  CMS Administrator Suggests Eliminating ‘Unnecessarily Time-consuming’ Documentation The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is working on initiatives aimed at alleviating providers' burden and simplifying federal regulations, Administrator Seema Verma wrote in a blog post earlier this month . She suggested a scale...