Educational In-services: Benefiting the Healthcare Team, Patients, and O&P Providers
The O&P EDGE interviewed O&P company owners and clinicians who provide a representative example of courses and in-services that range from...
Changes Proposed to Medicare Appeals Process
CMS Tries to Pull a Fast One on the ALJ 90-Day Decision Deadline Many O&P professionals and practices have experienced...
Returning to Fall’s Schedule With New Ideas
We are in the last dog days of summer and the thermometer reads 90 degrees. Meanwhile, children across the country...
Jeff Schmidt’s Mission to Conquer the Kona Ironman
Schmidt is thumbs up and ready to go before the 2012 Ironman World Championship in Kona. Photographs courtesy of Jeff Schmidt....
Using Retail to Balance the Bottom Line
Many pedorthists have relied mainly on insurance reimbursements to drive their practices. A physician writes a prescription for whatever he...
The Effectiveness of Foot Orthotics, Part II
The medical terrain continues to change rapidly, and additional overhauls are expected as the Affordable Care Act, accountable care organizations,...
Because That’s How We’ve Always Done It
When I am hired for a consulting job, I always ask my client why some tasks are done a certain...
Cast Saws Everywhere, and Not One That Cuts
If the facility at which you work is like most others, it probably owns multiple cast saws and there are...
What They Didn’t Teach You in the Classroom
You hit the ground running. School gave you the tools and the concepts needed to begin your residency-and now you...
Prosthetics Versus Orthotics: Considering Opportunity Costs to Challenge a Financial Paradigm
Having been a prosthetist for about seven years, I have heard it said that the real money in O&P is...
