2009-03-17T00:00:00Z opencongress.org tag:opencongress.org,2007:/bill/blog/49707 tag:opencongress.org,2009-03-17:/commentary/4533393 2009-03-17T00:00:00Z Outsource Marketing Solutions blog (Saginaw, MI) The Saginaw Spirit Hockey Club and Michigan Orthopedic Services have partnered for a very special presentation taking place at this Saturday's home game. Twelve year old Tyler Adams and his dad Scott will be honored at ...<br /><br /><a href="http://askelizabeth.typepad.com/weblog/2009/03/foot-for-tyler.html">Go to article</a> tag:opencongress.org,2009-03-17:/commentary/4524052 2009-03-17T00:00:00Z Outsource Marketing Solutions blog WASHINGTON -- Sean Brame looks bored. He's leaning forward to look down the length of the long, glass covered table, resting his cheek on his right wrist, where the doctors had to cut off his hand three years ago. Three...<br /><br /><a href="http://askelizabeth.typepad.com/weblog/2009/03/lobbying-for-arms-and-legs.html">Go to article</a> tag:opencongress.org,2009-03-17:/commentary/4521466 2009-03-17T00:00:00Z Covering Health Advocates call for enhanced prosthetic insurance. Mar. 17th, 2009 by Andrew Van Dam Filed under: Government. Unlike Medicare or Medicaid, private insurers often cap annual coverage for prosthetics. In recent years, some insurers have ...<br /><br /><a href="http://www.healthjournalism.org/blog/2009/03/advocates-call-for-enhanced-prosthetic-insurance/">Go to article</a> tag:opencongress.org,2009-01-14:/commentary/4027177 2009-01-14T00:00:00Z Outsource Marketing Solutions blog Forget Clint Eastwood! Who needs Clint Eastwood when you've got Richard Blumenthal?!State Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said he is continuing his own investigation into UnitedHealth Group, its Ingenix subsidiary and several other ...<br /><br /><a href="http://askelizabeth.typepad.com/weblog/2009/01/you-go-get-em-dickie-b.html">Go to article</a> tag:opencongress.org,2008-12-21:/commentary/3775879 2008-12-21T00:00:00Z Outsource Marketing Solutions blog HB 5615 Federal Prosthetic Parity Bill. H.R.5615 Bill Status. Google search. Google. WWW askelizabeth.typepad.com. Recent Posts. Run Bob Run. Chocolate. A dog and his orthoses. What's goat for, "This socket could use a little Shear Ban! ...<br /><br /><a href="http://askelizabeth.typepad.com/weblog/2008/12/chocolate-.html">Go to article</a> tag:opencongress.org,2008-12-12:/commentary/3685056 2008-12-12T00:00:00Z Outsource Marketing Solutions blog HB 5615 Federal Prosthetic Parity Bill. H.R.5615 Bill Status. Google search. Google. WWW askelizabeth.typepad.com. Recent Posts. And the Emmy goes to...WPTV · 4 Feet of Hero · It will have to be a VERY big leg · Tibion's PowerKnee <br /><br /><a href="http://askelizabeth.typepad.com/weblog/2008/12/and-the-emmy-goes-towptv-.html">Go to article</a> tag:opencongress.org,2008-12-08:/commentary/3612631 2008-12-08T00:00:00Z Outsource Marketing Solutions blog HB 5615 Federal Prosthetic Parity Bill. H.R.5615 Bill Status. Google search. Google. WWW askelizabeth.typepad.com. Recent Posts. Tibion's PowerKnee Wins Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Award for Medical Devices · Toot Your Own Horn ...<br /><br /><a href="http://askelizabeth.typepad.com/weblog/2008/12/tibions-powerknee-wins-silicon-valley-emerging-technology-award-for-medical-devices.html">Go to article</a> tag:opencongress.org,2008-12-02:/commentary/3530019 2008-12-02T00:00:00Z Outsource Marketing Solutions blog HB 5615 Federal Prosthetic Parity Bill. H.R.5615 Bill Status. Google search. Google. WWW askelizabeth.typepad.com. Recent Posts. Toot Your Own Horn · American Veterans Disabled For Life Memorial · Inspired by Wii-hab, ...<br /><br /><a href="http://askelizabeth.typepad.com/weblog/2008/12/american-veterans-disabled-for-life-memorial.html">Go to article</a> tag:opencongress.org,2008-11-25:/commentary/3452597 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Outsource Marketing Solutions blog HB 5615 Federal Prosthetic Parity Bill. H.R.5615 Bill Status. Google search. Google. WWW askelizabeth.typepad.com. Recent Posts. Sugarfoot · Dog trained in military prison to help amputee · VA Center for Restorative and Regenerative ...<br /><br /><a href="http://askelizabeth.typepad.com/weblog/2008/11/sugarfoot.html">Go to article</a> tag:opencongress.org,2008-11-25:/commentary/3473156 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Outsource Marketing Solutions blog HB 5615 Federal Prosthetic Parity Bill. H.R.5615 Bill Status. Google search. Google. WWW askelizabeth.typepad.com. Recent Posts. Inspired by Wii-hab, Armiger and colleague Vogelstein borrowed a colleague’s copy of Guitar Hero and ...<br /><br /><a href="http://askelizabeth.typepad.com/weblog/2008/11/inspired-by-wiihab-armiger-and-colleague-vogelstein-borrowed-a-colleagues-copy-of-guitar-hero-and-at.html">Go to article</a> tag:opencongress.org,2008-11-24:/commentary/3484666 2008-11-24T00:00:00Z Outsource Marketing Solutions blog HB 5615 Federal Prosthetic Parity Bill. H.R.5615 Bill Status. Google search. Google. WWW askelizabeth.typepad.com. Recent Posts. Dog trained in military prison to help amputee · VA Center for Restorative and Regenerative Medicine ...<br /><br /><a href="http://askelizabeth.typepad.com/weblog/2008/11/va-center-for-restorative-and-regenerative-medicine.html">Go to article</a> tag:opencongress.org,2008-11-19:/commentary/3365010 2008-11-19T00:00:00Z Outsource Marketing Solutions blog TAMPA - Susan Chiellini says it started with an e-mail four months ago. A dog with an amputated paw on "death row" at a county animal shelter in Georgia was hours away from being euthanized. That e-mail set into motion...<br /><br /><a href="http://askelizabeth.typepad.com/weblog/2008/11/tampa---susan-chiellini-says-it-started-with-an-e-mail-four-months-ago-a-dog-with-an-amputated-paw-on-death-row-at-a-coun.html">Go to article</a> tag:opencongress.org,2008-11-17:/commentary/3361041 2008-11-17T00:00:00Z Outsource Marketing Solutions blog HB 5615 Federal Prosthetic Parity Bill. H.R.5615 Bill Status. Google search. Google. WWW askelizabeth.typepad.com. Recent Posts. Can dogs be fitted with prostheses? OWW is 101 · It's all just part of being a footballer. ...<br /><br /><a href="http://askelizabeth.typepad.com/weblog/2008/11/can-dogs-be-fitted-with-prostheses.html">Go to article</a> tag:opencongress.org,2008-11-10:/commentary/3259878 2008-11-10T00:00:00Z KFGs Quest for Prosthetic Parity Hey - I voted for you just so I could keep nagging you about c0-sponsoring HR 5615. My letters to your office are ignored. Well, except for the one where you told me you would support the mental health parity bill when I said PROSTHETIC ...<br /><br /><a href="http://parityquest.blogspot.com/2008/11/congratulations-to.html">Go to article</a> tag:opencongress.org,2008-11-10:/commentary/3390944 2008-11-10T00:00:00Z Outsource Marketing Solutions blog HB 5615 Federal Prosthetic Parity Bill. H.R.5615 Bill Status. Google search. Google. WWW askelizabeth.typepad.com. Recent Posts. It's all just part of being a footballer. Everything except the orthodics (sic) · You knew it was coming, ...<br /><br /><a href="http://askelizabeth.typepad.com/weblog/2008/11/its-all-just-part-of-being-a-footballer-everything-except-the-orthodics-sic.html">Go to article</a> tag:opencongress.org,2008-09-20:/commentary/3765023 2008-09-20T00:00:00Z WashingtonWatch.com - Comments for HR 6562,... The Group Health Plan Prosthetics Parity Act of 2007 (H.R. 5615). See Bills on the Same Subject: Access to health care, Administrative remedies, Auditing, Civil rights, Coinsurance, Congress, Congressional investigations, ...<br /><br /><a href="http://www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_SN_3517.html">Go to article</a> tag:opencongress.org,2008-09-04:/commentary/2791836 2008-09-04T00:00:00Z Cappca_Resource_Blog Making the Case for HR 5615. The American people deserve health care coverage for catastrophic illness or injury; the very reason they purchase health insurance. Currently, eleven states – Colorado, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, ...<br /><br /><a href="http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-qYPbMTE0dqcq2AXHaTI-?cq=1&amp;p=627">Go to article</a> tag:opencongress.org,2008-07-30:/commentary/2577026 2008-07-30T00:00:00Z Healthtorial Such laws have passed in 11 states and are pending in 30 more. A state bill is expected to reach Houston early next year and there is a national bill HR 5615 that seeks prosthetic parity as well.<br /><br /><a href="http://healthtorial.com/2008/07/30/limbs-of-love-helps-local-woman-walk-again-after-limb-bought-on-ebay-fails/">Go to article</a> tag:opencongress.org,2008-07-24:/commentary/2552163 2008-07-24T00:00:00Z Amputee Coalition of America Parity Blog The Prosthetic Parity Act (HR 5615) provides insurance parity under employer-paid and group health insurance coverage for prosthetic devices and components. On July 22nd, ACA staff and board members headed to Capitol Hill to work ...<br /><br /><a href="http://acaparity.blogspot.com/2008/07/aca-staff-on-hill-pushing-parity-bill.html">Go to article</a> tag:opencongress.org,2008-07-09:/commentary/2464923 2008-07-09T00:00:00Z Amputee Coalition of America Parity Blog turned out to Washington, DC to lobby their members of Congress in support of the federal parity bill (HR 5615). Members of Congress are increasingly aware the extent to which health insurers deny many amputees access to artificial ...<br /><br /><a href="http://acaparity.blogspot.com/2008/07/acas-first-annual-lobby-day-was-success.html">Go to article</a> tag:opencongress.org,2008-06-10:/commentary/3804334 2008-06-10T00:00:00Z Sunlight Foundation Blogs ... and days before they signed on to be cosponsors of a bill prized by the company — the Hanger Orthopedic Group (HOG), a Bethesda, Md., -based prosthetics company, is pushing the Group Health Plan Prosthetics Parity Act (H.R. 5615). ...<br /><br /><a href="http://blog.sunlightfoundation.com/2008/06/03/curious-campaign-contribution-and-vote/">Go to article</a> tag:opencongress.org,2008-06-03:/commentary/2265914 2008-06-03T00:00:00Z Sunlight Foundation Blogs ... and days before they signed on to be cosponsors of a bill prized by the company – the Hanger Orthopedic Group (HOG), a Bethesda, Md., -based prosthetics company, is pushing the Group Health Plan Prosthetics Parity Act (HR 5615). ...<br /><br /><a href="http://www.sunlightfoundation.com/node/4849">Go to article</a> tag:opencongress.org,2008-06-03:/commentary/2268925 2008-06-03T00:00:00Z Sunlight Foundation blogs Yesterday, Dan Christensen had a report in The Miami Herald about two Florida Congressmen who are also brothers, Lincoln and Mario Diaz-Balart, receiving $7100 and $3000 respectfully from a Maryland company weeks and days before they ...<br /><br /><a href="http://www.sunlightfoundation.com/curious_campaign_contribution_and_vote_sponsorship_connection">Go to article</a> tag:opencongress.org,2008-06-02:/commentary/2261958 2008-06-02T00:00:00Z Inbox Robot: Healthcare Lobbying News Jersey Senate seat. The Diaz-Balarts, traditionally not healthcare leaders on Capitol Hill, stand out from ... million. If approved next year, the Group Health Plan Prosthetics Parity Act, HR 5615, would ...<br /><br /><a href="http://www.inboxrobot.com/news.php?fid=172381273">Go to article</a> tag:opencongress.org,2008-05-27:/commentary/3820491 2008-05-27T00:00:00Z Everything DC We hope you can join us in Washington, DC on June 11th as we work to push Congress to pass the Prosthetic Parity Act (HR 5615)! • For more information about the lobby day including our “frequently asked questions: click here: ...<br /><br /><a href="http://washingtondc.livejournal.com/2491147.html">Go to article</a> tag:opencongress.org,2008-04-24:/commentary/3452598 2008-04-24T00:00:00Z The Middlebury Campus There is a federal bill, HR 5615, that would extend these protections to health plans that are federally regulated. Please, call on Vermont's congressional delegation to support this important legislation. Sincerely, Morgan Sheets ...<br /><br /><a href="http://www.middleburycampus.com/news/2008/04/24/Opinions/Letters.To.The.Editor-3344996.shtml">Go to article</a> tag:opencongress.org,2008-04-15:/commentary/2157499 2008-04-15T00:00:00Z The Care Digest A bill creating the Prosthetic Parity Act, HR 5615, has been introduced in the House. The bill was authored by Rep. Robert Andrews (D-NJ), with Reps. George Miller (D-CA), Todd Platts (R-PA), Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL), ...<br /><br /><a href="http://caredigest.blogspot.com/2008/04/amputee-coalition-of-america-calls-for.html">Go to article</a> tag:opencongress.org,2008-04-08:/commentary/2491472 2008-04-08T00:00:00Z A Leg Up Unfairness is not part of our culture, our country or our laws. Yet health insurance treatment of amputees is making a sham of fairness. The Americans with Disabilities Act protects the one out of every five of us with a disability from ...<br /><br /><a href="http://blogs.healthcare.com/jothmeister/2008/04/08/prosthetic-parity-outrage/">Go to article</a> tag:opencongress.org,2008-04-08:/commentary/3134213 2008-04-08T00:00:00Z A Leg Up at the federal level, legislation was just submitted as the prosthetic parity act into the 110th congress of the united states of america as hr 5615 sponsored by representative robert andrews (d-nj). it will require commercial health ...<br /><br /><a href="http://jothmeister.blogspot.com/2008/04/prosthetic-parity-outrage.html">Go to article</a> tag:opencongress.org,2008-03-27:/commentary/1906137 2008-03-27T00:00:00Z Amputee Coalition of America Parity Blog The Prosthetic Parity Act was just introduced into the 110th Congress of the United States of America as HR 5615!! We have been working on this for over a year. This is incredibly exciting!Knoxville, TN, (March 17, 2008)—In the face of ...<br /><br /><a href="http://acaparity.blogspot.com/2008/03/breaking-news-aca-launches-federal-bill.html">Go to article</a> tag:opencongress.org,2008-03-21:/commentary/1956954 2008-03-21T00:00:00Z Human Resources Co Info ... for prosthetic devices and components, under legislation calling for new parity standards in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. Introduced as HR 5615, the Prosthetic Parity Act asks that health plans offer prosthetic car… ...<br /><br /><a href="http://human-resources-co.info/human-resources-articles/effective-phrases-for-performance-appraisals-a-guide-to-successful-evaluations.html">Go to article</a> tag:opencongress.org,2008-03-19:/commentary/1809278 2008-03-19T00:00:00Z Internships Our federal bill (HR 5615) was introduced in March. We have a huge series of events happening all over the country in April. And we are looking to hold a federal lobby day in June. With all of this progress, we are certainly in need of ...<br /><br /><a href="http://internships.livejournal.com/11773.html">Go to article</a> tag:opencongress.org,2008-03-16:/commentary/1737132 2008-03-16T00:00:00Z World Flat ... Parity from Dr. John Rush, Medical Director, Hanger Prosthetics I have great news and an historic opportunity for you the Prosthetic Parity Act has been introduced into the 110th Congress of the United States of America as HR 5615 . ...<br /><br /><a href="http://www.worldflat.duetrade.com/2008/03/16/world-class-c/cutting-off-california-health-insurance.jsp">Go to article</a> tag:opencongress.org,2008-03-14:/commentary/3134212 2008-03-14T00:00:00Z Outsource Marketing Solutions blog it’s up to each and every one of you to write your representative and ask them to co-sponsor hr 5615. if your representative is listed as one of those sponsoring the prosthetic parity act, please contact them to say thank you. ...<br /><br /><a href="http://askelizabeth.typepad.com/weblog/2008/03/national-prosth.html">Go to article</a>