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Orthotic and Prosthetic Victory – Thanks to Your Help! But the Fight Continues…

Thank you to our members for your support in contacting your senators and representatives, which resulted in preserving our rights as OTs and PTs to fabricate and dispense orthoses to Medicare beneficiaries. In fact, we heard from many members these past few weeks just how important it was for us to work together on this issue; and work together we did! We got significant support from our partnership with AOTA, APTA and HTCC. ASSH also was instrumental in doing its own outreach per our request. The membership went to work in fact; we want to call out TriState Hand & Occupational Therapy in Cumberland, MD for writing more than 140 letters from its office. Thank you for this extraordinary effort.

The fight continues. Congresswoman Shelly Berkley, Las Vegas, NV, who is the key sponsor for HR2479 still needs to withdraw her support. Click here for our letter requesting your continued outreach to Congresswoman Berkley and Senator Max Baucus (amongst others) since this bill is not dead yet and members of the Senate Finance Committee have been given a huge misrepresentation of information that this bill would be effective in reducing fraud, waste and abuse in the Medicare System – this is not true!

We will continue to keep you updated on the latest progress with this bill and ask for your continued outreach. This affects all OTs and PTs and it’s critical that we all take action.


Save the Date!

ASHT’s 33rd Annual Meeting
Best Practice in Hand Therapy
June 23, 2010 (preceding the 8th Triennial Congress of IFSHT)
Caribe Royale Hotel, Orlando, FL

Learn more here.

 

For more information about the 8th Triennial Congress of IFSHT, please visit www.hands2010.com.

 

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    Updated for 2009: Orthotic Coding for Therapists

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