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Please visit AOPAVotes.org to urge your representative to support passage of HR 2479 (the Medicare Orthotic and Prosthetic Improvements Act) and HR 2575 (the Prosthetic and Custom Orthotic Parity Act). HR 2479 will enhance patient care, improve healthcare savings, and reduce fraud by ensuring licensure compliance, accreditation and qualifications of O&P providers who treat Medicare patients. HR 2575 will assure that insurers who offer O&P coverage must do so on the same terms as other general medical or surgical coverage, without caps or limits that apply only to O&P devices.
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You don’t have to go all the way to Washington to make a difference. Sometimes the easiest way to meet with members of Congress is when they are back in the district. In fact, in-district meetings are often just as effective as meetings in Washington. The Amputee Coalition is leading the fight to pass the federal Prosthetic and Customized Orthotic Parity Act, which is intended to ensure that insurance companies across the nation provide fair and consistent coverage for these devices, but we need your help. |
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The Arms and Legs Are Not a Luxury site was created to reinforce the Amputee Coalition's simple message to insurance companies and members of Congress: Arms and legs are not a luxury. They are basic items that people with limb loss or congenital limb absence need to hug their children, to go to school, to walk safely across a street, to work to support their family and simply to function every day. They are a necessity. The Amputee Coalition strongly supports the insurance market reforms, including guaranteed issue and renewal of coverage in the individual and small group markets, the prohibition of pre-existing health condition exclusions, and the end of annual and lifetime insurance caps with a limit on out-of-pocket spending. We are committed to ensuring that the essential benefit categories in the House and Senate bills include coverage for durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics and supplies (DMEPOS). Please call or write your representative and senator today and let them know that you expect healthcare reform to provide adequate coverage for all Americans, including people with limb loss! Call the U.S. Capitol switchboard at 202/224-3121 and ask for your senators' and/or representative's office. Message: Please include specific language around rehabilitative services such as prosthetic devices in the healthcare reform bill. Help amputees remain employed, independent and productive!
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