Friday, November 8, 2024

Re[2]: consolidation

John Russell

Hi All

I appreciate all of the positive comments that I received on this subject.

One was from C. Michael Schuch, C.P.O., F.I.S.P.O., F.A.A.O.P.

president-elect, AOPA, the point of it was that You can thank the efforts of

AOPA for this very lucky situation. Well I don’t totally agreed, there is

the Big AMA, and the massive APTA that has more money, more voting members,

and they still don’t get there way. Why Us? My Opinion, is that we do have

something worth while to give the medical consumers. The next reason is that

we save health cost dollars, in almost every respect. That is where our

focus should be.

Nowadays I don’t let a PT or Dr. get away with “oh, this small piece of

plastic cost 400.00”, I now give them these tales. A spousal call to 911

after a fall, pt being taken an ambulance to the ER and nothing is WRONG.

This scenario at least in CA will cost minimal of twice the amount of the

AFO, just stopping this once saves more than the cost of the AFO. My other

tale is a OandP takeoff of a John Hopkins 1989 Hip Fx study, had 300,000 hip

Fx from falls in one year, at an average cost of 35.000.00 each. Breaking

down the study from the view point of OandP, 40% intrinsic and 60%

extrinsic, in my opinion 20% of the extrinsic would benefit from an AFO.

With a 50% failure rate of the AFOs in one year. The savings where very

close to 1 billion dollars in one year. More than the total of what Medicare

paid for all of OandP services in that year.

If we can learn to do more along these ideas then we will be even stronger.

In my opinion our main goal is to get all practitioners up to the challenge

of improving our delivery systems. Practitioners looking at how they do

things, with the goal of reducing the cost for the health delivery

community, getting the health delivery community to see the benefits of

safety as a goal for an AFO.

My last point is, in a time when everyone else is changing the rules for us,

my survival will depend on me to changing my rules. This doesn’t mean being

cheap, but being smarter.

[email protected]

John G. Russell Jr.

3161 Putnam Blvd.

Pleasant Hill, CA. 94523

Phone 510-943-1119

Fax 510-943-24-93

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