July 2015 - Table of Contents
- Mitigating Challenging Patient Situations
Feature - Building a Better Hand With the HAPTIX Project
Feature - The Unmentionables of Health: When Life Gets in the Way of Healthy Living
Feature - New York’s One-Limb-per-Lifetime Restriction Attacked With Collaborative Effort
Feature - The Myth of a Loveless Future
Special Consumer Feature - Five-Year Case Study of an Infant With Scoliosis Using Schroth Therapy and Chêneau-Type Bracing
Feature - Aspects of Gait: Part I
Stepping Out - eXG Marks Ten Years of Motocross; Series Expands
Sports - CPOh: How to Get More Out of Your Prosthetic Certification
Perspective - Time to Modify
On Topic - Re: Quantum Leap: Transitioning From Pediatric to Adult Care, May 2015
Letter to the Editor - ACPOC 2015 Annual Meeting
Industry Review - Conferences - Focusing on Patient Issues Beyond O&P
Viewpoint - Potentially Far-Reaching Ramifications in LCD Draft Policy for Lower-Limb Prostheses
The Durable Medical Equipment Medicare Administrative Contractors (DME MACs) have released a local coverage determination (LCD) draft policy for lower-limb prostheses; LCDs are the basis for decisions made by a Medicare contractor's medical review staff in the absence of statute, regulations, or national coverage policy. This particular draft LCD/Policy Article "contains significant revisions from existing Lower Limb Prosthesis medical policy…" and some aspects "appear to be incompatible with quality patient care," reports the American Orthotic & Prosthetic Association (AOPA).
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