The Amputee Coalition will be accepting applications for the annual Christina Skoski, MD Scholarship until April 9. The $1,000 scholarship will be awarded to a student with congenital limb difference or limb loss. The scholarship is open to undergraduate students…
Year: 2012
Hanger Receives Global Health Care Leadership Award
CMMB’s senior vice president of programs Jeffrey Jordan and CMMB’s director Dianne Jean-Francois, MD, MPH present the Global Health Care Leadership Award to Hanger’s CEO Tom Kirk and the Hanger Ivan R. Sabel Foundation’s Chairman Ivan Sabel. …
AOPA To Host Conference Call Addressing Supplier Issues
The American Orthotic and Prosthetic Association will host its second conference call in the O&P Issue Updates Series on Wednesday, March 14 at 3 pm EST. Thomas V. DiBello, CO, FAAOP, AOPA president, and executive director Thomas F. Fise, JD,…
Hanger Announces Winners of Inaugural James Edward Hanger Awards
Hanger Orthopedics announced the recipients of the first James Edward Hanger Awards of Excellence at its annual Education Fair and National Meeting in Las Vegas. The categories include collaboration, customer service, clinical excellence, leadership, pioneering innovation and strategic flexibility. Hanger’s…
Össur Named Among Most Innovative Companies
Fast Company magazine named Össur among the “Most Innovative Companies in the World” in its annual rankings. The company was ranked 7th among all global health care companies. Included in Össur’s 750 registered patents and designs are the Flex-Foot Cheetah…
O&P Improvement Act Introduced to Senate Floor
In a statement released by the National Association for the Advancement of Orthotics and Prosthetics, Peter W. Thomas, JD, general counsel for the NAAOP, discussed the recent advancements for the Medicare Orthotic and Prosthetic Improvement Act. Senators Olympia Snow (R-Maine),…
Hearing Loss Linked to Increased Risk of Falling
A new study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine suggests that people with hearing loss are at a greater risk for falling. Frank Lin, MD, PhD, an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, studied data from…
CMS Releases Off-The-Shelf Orthotic HCPCS Codes
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released the 2012 Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) codes for off-the-shelf (OTS) orthotics usually covered under the Social Security Act. OTS orthotics require minimal self-adjustment and do not require expertise in trimming,…
President Urged to Recognize Limb Loss Awareness Month
The Amputee Coalition has submitted a presidential proclamation request to designate April as Limb Loss Awareness Month. In order for the proclamation to be passed, the Amputee Coalition is requesting that supporters contact that White House and ask that the…
Study in Brain Flexibility Could Mean Advances for Neuroprosthetics
Neuroscientists at the University of California, Berkeley and the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown in Portugal have demonstrated that through brain plasticity, the same brain circuits used to learn motor skills can be used to master purely mental tasks as…