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Scott Specialties
Scott Specialties, Inc, a manufacturer of private label, OEM, and branded orthopedic soft goods, has three Kansas locations with people who take pride in their work. We feel that there is no substitute for quality and back that feeling with a replacement guarantee. Our record speaks for itself, less than one-tenth of one percent of shipped products are ever returned as defective.
Scott Specialties offers over 800 different products for the US and international Orthopedic (medical), Industrial, Sports Medicine, and Retail markets. All products are CE marked, and meet all FDA and European quality standards. Branded product offerings include: the Scott® full line of orthopedic supports, and the Workforce® Industrial line. Our retail offerings are Sport-Aid™, Sport-Aid Gold™, Preferred 1st™, and Comfy-Back® brands. Additionally, Scott Specialties has the exclusive license to manufacture and market Snoopy ® pediatric soft goods.We have many specialty products and are one of only a few companies with circular knitting capabilities producing knitted compression supports for the orthopedic markets.
Marketing is through a worldwide dealer/distributor network. While trends are toward larger dealer and wholesale distributors for quick turn time and small order processing, dealers of all sizes carry our products. Marketing and field support are readily available. Scott Specialties has available upon request private label and custom product programs.
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News
2/6/2012
Wall Street Journal Bashes the Bidding System
AAHomecare Wednesday in Washington Report: Wall Street Journal Bashes the Bidding System
February 6, 2012
Today’s lead editorial in The Wall Street Journal describes the design of the current Medicare bidding program as “idiotic and designed for failure.” The scathing critique praises the concept of competitive bidding but notes that Round One (what it calls the “pilots”) was a disaster. “Medicare cooked up an auction process that defies all economic sense.” Notwithstanding some gratuitous slaps at HME providers, the WSJ editorial is a good dissection of some of the fundamental structural flaws of the current bidding program.
An excerpt from the editorial, titled “Health Reform Built to Fail,” is below:
“The current nationwide rollout has no substantive revisions from the failed pilots, despite the objections of 244 economists and auction scientists led by the University of Maryland’s Peter Cramton. The consensus of basically everyone who knows anything about auctions is that the no-risk bids and median pricing are idiotic and designed for failure.”
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