
Medicare Defines Orthotics and O&P Legislation Introduced
There were two important developments in June that advanced O&P policy, one regulatory and one legislative. On June 30, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 2024
There were two important developments in June that advanced O&P policy, one regulatory and one legislative. On June 30, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 2024
You might have heard the sage advice given to those struggling through a long process before achieving a lofty goal: You must learn to crawl before you can walk. The
Experienced O&P clinicians are skilled at identifying deviations from normal gait and recognizing the underlying neurological, musculoskeletal, and device-related causes of those deviations. When observing gait, students and novice clinicians
It’s still technically summer until September 23 this year, but the Labor Day holiday usually marks the unofficial start of autumn and a shift into our fall routines. It’s a
From the day I first learned about O&P, I knew this was how I was meant to make my impact and influence the lives of others. I had never seen
My previous column focused on challenging the prior authorization denial. This column addresses the denied claim, and I am going to take a different approach this time: Instead of describing
In March 2013, Taushima “Shima” Nixon’s car died at an intersection in Greenville, North Carolina, where she was an undergraduate student studying to become a nurse. “I knew it was
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