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How to Improve Gait Analysis via Telehealth
Provision of O&P services via telehealth is challenging. However, stories with positive outcomes are beginning to emerge as digital health...
Read moreIs Sock Ply Irrelevant?
Since the advent of requiring documentation to justify socket replacements, sock ply has been used as the gold standard for...
Read moreProsthetists Should Provide Gait Training
I would like to give my perspective about the article “Empowering Patients With Therapeutic Gait Training,” in the September issue...
Read moreKnee Braces, Physician Notes, and Bad Policy
As anyone in O&P knows, physician notes are notoriously lacking in description for orthotic necessity. In a recent case, I...
Read moreA Change in Perspective About Change
As vice president of business development at Click Medical, I truly believe that our business can’t be successful unless our...
Read moreMedicare Advantage Plans Are Robbing Us… Again
The Office of the Inspector General recently issued a report showing that Medicare Advantage plans inappropriately denied 18 percent of...
Read moreDiscrepancies Between Codes and Policies
For providers, knowing the estimated reimbursement of services before they are rendered is a critical component of the healthcare revenue...
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Medicare and O&P Need Consistent Guidelines
After inconsistent and unclear Medicare audits of some of our claims for custom-fitted LSO codes L-0637 and L-0650, I think...
Read moreOne Man’s Thoughts About Prosthesis Covers and Cosmesis
I’m not in the O&P business. I’m a transfemoral amputee, and I have some thoughts for the profession about the...
Read moreUnite the Clans!
O&P has always reminded me of the movie Braveheart. There are small, medium, and large clans that all want to...
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