Hello, everyone! Thanks for watching our video and reading this blog post!
Dan Rinella, Rinella Prosthetics & Orthotics.
That’s a great question and we just want to let you know that if you’re coming to see us usually people bring a prescription. Not just us, any prosthetic and orthotic company in the United States does it this way, or at least they should. And its a good idea as well to bring your prescription with you if you have it. Sometimes people forget them in the car (try not to do that).
A lot of times people bring some sort of ID, and they bring their Medicare, their workman’s comp claim number, or they bring their insurance card (maybe all three). Sometimes there’s more than one visit when you go to see an orthotist or a prosthetist, especially for a prosthetist.
From there, after visiting with an the orthotist and/or prosthetist they can then explain the next processes and what you should bring other than documentation, for example.
There’s so many different kinds of braces that it’s hard to get it all in on this video / article post. However, just to name a couple. So, if you’re going to be getting a AFO brace, anything you’re going to be putting on your foot or your ankle, you should be bringing a pair of shoes. And you have to think, “okay, now I’m not just putting my foot into a pair of shoes, I’m wearing something else, putting my foot and something else inside of a shoe.”
So, you might want to bring the most common shoes that you wear or if you’re getting a back brace, you should consider bringing a T-shirt with you. Sometimes people just show up with like a sweatshirt on. So, in this instance a T-shirt is good idea. A lot of times an orthotist will have a body sock you can wear anyways.
So, just that preliminary paperwork and a lot of times what the orthotic company does actually (just coming back to the administrative side of this) is they’ll help you chase down needed paperwork that you need to support your claim to, and that goes a long way.
But those first three things that I talked about, your ID, some kind of prescription, and also your coverage, whatever it may be, bring that with you to your appointment, and I would actually call ahead to make sure that they take your insurance that goes a long way prior to coming in for a visit.
As you don’t want to find out the hard way that they don’t take care insurance at the orthotic company once you get there.
So, I hope this video helped you on some level!
Good luck to you and take care.