Staff Report: What AOPA is Doing for You!
Detailed information about AOPA’s 1^st quarter of service to the O&P industry is outlined in the Staff Report prepared by AOPA Executive Director, Tom Fise.  It’s an excellent update on the legislative issues affecting O&P, the impact of the recent AOPA Policy Forum, and a summary of ongoing services and activities available to members.
April 1, 2008

Welcome to AOPAversity!
Join us at Bally’s in Las Vegas April 17-18 for the first course in AOPA’s new educational experience, AOPAversity. The initial course, “Mastering Medicare: Advanced Coding and Billing Techniques,” takes up where our old Coding & Billing Seminar left off, covering new topics like appeals, compliance issues, documentation, complex coding and in-depth discussion of medical policies and how they affect billing. Meant for both practitioners and office staff, this advanced two day event will feature break-out sessions for these two groups, to ensure concentration on material appropriate to each group.
March 18, 2008

Policy Forum Delivers
Seventy-five leaders from the O&P field met with more than 80 members of Congress and their staff Tuesday, March 11 to deliver the positive message on how the profession and AOPA can help find savings in Medicare by urging more aggressive efforts at curbing fraud and abuse, enforcing licensing laws for access to reimbursement and the benefits of enacting state and federal parity laws. Click here for our gallery of photos taken during the 2008 AOPA Policy Forum.
March 21, 2008

AOPA and Chase: If You’re Paying More Than 1.9%, You’re Paying Too Much
AOPA members should check their current credit card processing rate to determine whether it makes sense to switch to the AOPA Chase Paymentech program with processing fees as low as 1.9%. Savings can amount to “found” dollars for the bottom line.  As an example, if your current rate is 2.5% or more and you process $500,000 annually in credit card payments – the .6% savings can mean another $3,000 to the bottom line. That’s like a patient care facility getting a 200% return on their annual dues investment in AOPA. Or it’s the same as getting two years of AOPA membership free!
March 18, 2008

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