Clark Named POINT President

Dennis Clark, CPO Dennis Clark, CPO, has joined POINT Health Centers of America Inc. as president, effective immediately, POINT announced February 7.

Clark is a second-generation American Board for Certification in Orthotics and Prosthetics (ABC)-certified practitioner with 30 years of clinical experience. He is a graduate of Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois. "Since purchasing the family business in 1987, Clark has remained a very integral part of our profession and is currently a partner in another successful multi-location private practice in Iowa, which makes him very familiar with the challenges facing independent O&P providers," POINT noted.

Along with multiple positions with the profession's national organizations, including as past president of ABC, past member of the Board of the American Academy of Orthotists and Prosthetists (the Academy), and as a former regional American Orthotic & Prosthetic Association (AOPA) president, he has held many other volunteer roles with all of these organizations. Clark, along with Jim Andreassen, Van Miller, and Tom Fitzgerald of the VGM Group, helped to launch the industry's largest and most inclusive member service organization, the Orthotic & Prosthetic Group of America (OPGA), said POINT.

POINT joined OPGA and the VGM Group in 2004. "This created a natural synergy between two strong organizations positioned to network O&P providers in a changing managed care and regulatory environment," Clark said. "POINT brought a strong managed care program together with OPGA's strong business services and manufacturer relationship menu."

Andreassen, who has worked with Clark for several years, will continue as president of the OPGA Group and head of the VGM O&P Division. Said Andreassen, "I am delighted to be working full-time with Dennis again and look with excitement to a future where payers and others who are not clinicians or patients can begin to see the enormous value of what our members do every day."

POINT's role under Clark will continue to be sharply focused on managed care contracting and will expand to include a state-of-the-art program for collection of outcomes data, according to POINT. "Like all medical professions, the O&P profession finds itself in the 'evidence-based care' era," Clark said. "The proof that all payers and plan administrators are now requiring must be based on verifiable and reliable data collected and compiled in a manner that can be used for effective and timely decision-making. If we are to ever come out of the 'cost only' decision-making by payers, we must prove the value of the work we do."

POINT will take the profession's lead position in outcomes and quality management data collection and will use the data collected in the pursuit of contracts for members and quality for the clients served, the organization said.

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