Perspective

The Office of the Inspector General recently issued a report showing that Medicare Advantage plans inappropriately denied 18 percent of claims and 13 percent of prior authorizations that traditional Medicare...

For providers, knowing the estimated reimbursement of services before they are rendered is a critical component of the healthcare revenue cycle. The first step in calculating reimbursement is verifying what...

After inconsistent and unclear Medicare audits of some of our claims for custom-fitted LSO codes L-0637 and L-0650, I think it’s time to develop objective standards for consistency in O&P...

I’m not in the O&P business. I’m a transfemoral amputee, and I have some thoughts for the profession about the January cover story in The O&P EDGE (“More Than Aesthetics:...

O&P has always reminded me of the movie Braveheart. There are small, medium, and large clans that all want to survive and prosper. These clans sometimes quarrel with each other...

Being a practitioner specializing in the treatment of deformational plagiocephaly brachycephaly, I wanted to better understand the level of training/knowledge/education in our profession in relation to this condition and its...

As allied healthcare professionals, many of us joined the profession with the goal of helping others. O&P is a unique field that can, at times, blur the lines between healthcare...

My sister, Shari, died of sepsis and multiple organ failure on February 12, 2013. She was 54 years old. Shari’s ordeal started with a swollen middle knuckle the day after...

About ten years ago, at a local chapter meeting of the American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists, I saw a graph that outlined the Consumer Price Index (CPI) as compared...

  While attending college at the University of Hartford, I earned a bachelor's degree in health sciences, a Master of Science in Prosthetics and Orthotics (MSPO), and a minor in...