Month: January 2009

CMS reported it protected roughly $400 million of taxpayer dollars as improper payments for Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) decreased from 3.9% in fiscal year (FY) 2007 to 3.6% or $10.4 billion, in FY 2008. The Medicare, Medicaid and State Children’s Health…

People tend to renew their commitment to fitness right around the New Year. They sign up for gym memberships, buy new workout clothes and shoes and make promises to stick to their New Year’s resolutions to exercise and lose weight.…

Companies considering downsizing as a strategy for surviving the current economic recession should know one thing about the experience that many companies had with downsizing: It did not work. “Research shows that downsizing very seldom works,” Clint Chadwick, PhD, an…

Following the party shift, an active year for health care policy is expected.

After an explosion in Iraq left him with little more than his torso, Brian Kolfage worked with the Hanger team to become independent again.

WWP and ACA Train Military Amputee Peer Visitors Disability Rights Legal Center Honors Ossur WWP and ACA Train Military Amputee Peer Visitors   © 2008/Corbis Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) and the Amputee Coalition of America (ACA) have expanded the Military…

As the O&P profession looks to the future, it is plain to see that green is the new hot color. In 2002, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) hosted little more than 4,000 attendees at its first Green Building Conference.…

There are big changes coming for the future of O&P technicians.

CMS releases additional clarification on exemptions and said pedorthists are now required to apply for accreditation by January 31.

First-Ever Paralympic Biathlon Program Created Penn State Program to Help Wounded Warriors First-Ever Paralympic Biathlon Program Created U.S. Paralympics and U.S. Biathlon recently announced a partnership to create the first Paralympic Biathlon program in the United States. Paralympic biathlon athletes…