A question or three!!
1)If the Medicare Competitive Bidding proposal of O&P services is adopted
nationally as planned without consideration of qualifications of providers,
would not Hangar(1,000 practitioners) have unfair advantage in becoming the
lowest bidder since they are manufacturers as well as major providers of
such services and components?
2)What happens to the independent and his chances of recieving O&P medicare
contracts when he is paying a higher price schedule for components than a
Hanger facility?
3)How many AOPA directors hold major manufacturer or Hanger positions has
well??
—– Original Message —–
From:
> Lest we forget that prosthetics/orthotics is a business — and a big
business
> at that — Hanger is reporting indigestion from its Novacare Orthotics &
> Prosthetics Inc. acquisition, although its new forecast is only eight
percent
> below what had been previously predicted. Nevertheless, the price of its
> stock is off almost 75 percent from its high of last October — three
months
> after the Novacare deal closed.
