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  Hanger Honors O&P Companies Five O&P companies were recognized for performance, innovation, and collaboration, among others during Hanger's partner award ceremony at Hanger LIVE 2020 February 4-5 in Nashville, Tennessee. Awards were given to: Blatchford, Basingstoke, En...
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  University Researchers Win Grant for Prosthetic Control System George Mason University researchers received $759,638 out of an anticipated five-year funding of $3,633,133 from the United States Department of Health and Human Services to develop and evaluate a prototype upper-limb prosthetic control system tha...
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  NAAOP Comments on O&P Prior Authorization The National Association for the Advancement of Orthotics and Prosthetics (NAAOP) released a statement about the February 11 announcement by the Centers for Medicare &Medicaid Services (CMS) that six lower-limb prosthetics Healthcare Common Proced...
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  CPO Appointed to KY Board Aaron Royster, CPO, has been appointed to the Kentucky Board of Prosthetics, Orthotics and Pedorthics to serve a term expiring July 1, 2021. Royster is an area clinic manager at Hanger Clinic, Louisville, Kentucky. He replaces Yeshua Ashworth, CPO...
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  Eye Tracking to Improve Prosthetic Hands An open-access research study published in Nature Scientific Data presented a multimodal dataset to investigate the inclusion of eye tracking and first-person video to provide more stable intent recognition for prosthetic control. The dataset con...
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  Research Analyzes Prosthetic Alignment Effects During Sit-to-Stand A study published in the J ournal of Electromyography and Kinesiology aimed to determine the effect of medial/lateral prosthetic alignment shifts on muscle activity and to compare muscle activity between people with and without transtibial amputa...
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  WillowWood Adds Board Member WillowWood Global, Mount Sterling, Ohio, and DW Healthcare Partners (DWHP) have appointed an additional member to the WillowWood board of directors. Elbert "Bert" Harman, former president and CEO at Ottobock North America, Austin, Texas, will serv...
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  3D Printing Hub to Supply Orthotic Labs iOrthotics Australia, headquartered in Queensland, Australia, and Hersco Ortho Labs, Long Island City, New York, have partnered in a joint venture to launch iOrthoticsUSA, Astoria, New York. a central fab printing hub that will supply custom ortho...
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  Prosthetics Codes Added for Prior Authorization The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that six Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) prosthetics codes will require Medicare prior authorization as a condition of payment. The initial implementation of prior auth...
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  O&P Research Grant Proposals Sought The American Orthotic and Prosthetic Association (AOPA), working in conjunction with the Center for Orthotic and Prosthetic Learning and Outcomes/Evidence-Based Practice and its board of directors, announced its 2020 Request for Pilot Grant Propos...