Author: Terense Kemp

The Orthotic and Prosthetic Activities Foundation has announced it will host CNN Hero Dale Beatty and extreme athlete, Reggie Showers, at McKeever’s First Ride on April 18, according to a press release. Beatty and Showers, both double amputees, will share…

Items offer practical solutions for fashionable wheelchair users.

In this issue, O&P News poses five questions to Steve Hill, BOCO, CO. Hill owns Delphi Ortho, an orthotic consulting firm. Hill was previously employed by a major central fabricator for 25 years, which is where he got much of…

Audits are not going away any time soon. Here is how O&P facilities are dealing with the new reality.

Make the most of ‘Oscar-worthy’ O&P performance.

States that expanded Medicaid under the ACA have significantly higher rates of diabetes diagnoses compared with patients in states that did not expand coverage, according to new data. “This seminal study demonstrates that the ACA promotes earlier diagnosis of one…

Progressive O&P, based in Albertson, N.Y., announced it is leading a campaign to change the “one prosthesis per limb per lifetime” restriction under New York state’s benchmark health insurance plan. The One Limb for Life campaign is supported by groups…

Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Mark Warner, D-Va., have introduced legislation to apply accreditation and licensing standards for O&P devices under Medicare. The goal of The Medicare Orthotics and Prosthetics Improvement Act of 2015 is to guarantee product quality for…

Hanger announced it has received a notice from the New York Stock Exchange that the company is not in compliance with the exchange’s continued listing requirements. The notice is a result of Hanger’s failure to timely file its Annual Report…

Hanger announced it has received a notice from the New York Stock Exchange that the company is not in compliance with the exchange’s continued listing requirements. The notice is a result of Hanger’s failure to timely file its Annual Report…