October 2018
The O&P EDGE
edit post Billing and Collections Q&A by Lisa Lake-Salmon Executive Vice President, Acc-Q-Data Inc. October 1, 2018 Billing for O&P devices can be complicated. Count on Got FAQs? to help
Billing and Collections Q&A
Lisa Lake-Salmon Executive Vice President, Acc-Q-Data Inc.
Billing for O&P devices can be complicated. Count on Got FAQs? to help answer your toughest questions. This month’s column focuses on the documentation you need to successfully bill Medicare
Burnout in the O&P Workplace: Recognizing, Understanding, and Preventing
Betta Ferrendelli
Numerous surveys and studies have shown that not only is occupational stress the major source of burnout among professional adults, but it has escalated progressively over the last few
Changing Colors
ANDREA SPRIDGEN
By the time you read this,the summer days will have slipped into early fall with leaves changing to many colors. Many of you may have also recently returned from
Clinicians: Keeping an Eye on What’s Important
Rebecca Cook, MSOP
Day by day, as clinical specialists, we give our all to meet other’s needs, but what happens when we don’t meet our own? It’s likely that what inspired us
Following Explosion, Jorge Hernandez Achieves Miraculous Road to Recovery
Tara McMeekin
Life knocks us all down from time to time. It’s how we choose to get back up that counts. No one epitomizes that sentiment better than 34-year-old Jorge Hernandez.
How to Implement Change in the Workplace as an Employee
Nina Bondre
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” —Dan Millman, Way of the
Improving Interprofessional Communication
John T. Brinkmann, MA, CPO/L, FAAOP(D)
The incidence of medical errors is probably surprising to most people. It is estimated that if accurately accounted for, medical errors would be the third leading cause of death in
Man Is by Nature a Social Animal: Social Integration Following Lower-limb Amputation
Phil Stevens MEd, CPO, FAAOP
Aristotle asserted long ago that “man is by nature a social animal” and that one who does not partake of society is “either a beast or a god.” Socialization
