Editor’s Note–March 2026
With increasing regulatory hurdles and pressures from payers to provide detailed documentation to justify devices, clinicians and support staff can ...
K-levels in Practice: The Impact on Patient Care
As someone with bilateral transtibial amputations, Jeffrey Cain, MD, knows firsthand what’s at stake when his prosthetist assigns him a ...
Difficult Patients, Practitioners, and Encounters
A recent encounter with a patient began with a hushed warning from the administrative staff that this patient was difficult ...
Blog Offers New Resource for Prosthesis Users
ProstheticsExplained is a new resource that provides people with amputations an easy-to-follow guide about navigating life after amputation. Amputations can ...
Balancing O&P Care and Compliance: Thriving in the Reimbursement Maze
O&P clinicians’ passion for the profession lies in patient care and innovative solutions, not in navigating complex documentation, shifting reimbursement ...
Calcaneal Apophysitis (Sever’s Disease)
Calcaneal apophysitis, commonly referred to as Sever’s disease, is a frequent cause of heel pain in physically active children and ...
The Compliance Shift O&P Providers Can’t Ignore
For O&P practices, supplier enrollment standards have been viewed as a standard requirement and part of being a Medicare supplier ...
