Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

Description:

Posterity Group LLC is a veteran owned, service-disabled small business, headquartered in Rockville, MD, that specializes in federal government contracting and staffing. We are cultivating a WARP Multidisciplinary Clinic and looking to staff Prosthetist to provide their services to veterans in our Rockville, MD headquarters. The Prosthetist is expected to perform the following:   

• Complete prosthetic evaluations and functional-needs assessments.
• Participate in pre-amputation and post-amputation care planning when requested.
• Develop device recommendations consistent with diagnosis, goals, environment and payer requirements.
• Take measurements, casts and digital scans.
• Design, fit, align and adjust prosthetic devices.
• Assess socket fit, skin integrity, comfort, gait and component performance.
• Coordinate with physicians, PTs, OTs, kinesiotherapists and wound-care providers.
• Train patients and caregivers in device use, maintenance and safety.
• Document medical necessity and support prior authorization.
• Manage repair, replacement and follow-up schedules.
• Participate in interdisciplinary limb-loss clinics and outcome reviews.

  Minimum qualifications

• Master’s degree in orthotics and prosthetics from a CAAHEP-accredited program or an accepted equivalent.
• Current ABC Certified Prosthetist credential, or CPO credential if practicing both disciplines.
• Completion of applicable residency and examination requirements.
• Compliance with all Maryland, Medicare and payer credentialing requirements applicable at the time of hire.

ABC eligibility includes graduate education, clinical residency and certification examinations. ABC prosthetist/orthotist eligibility

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with upper- and lower-extremity prostheses.
• Experience with Veterans, active adults and pediatric patients.
• Microprocessor, myoelectric and adaptive-sports expertise.
• Medicare and VA Community Care documentation experience.

Performance indicators

• Successful fitting and device utilization.
• Comfort, skin integrity and functional outcomes.
• Delivery and authorization turnaround time.
• Repair and remake rates.
• Patient satisfaction.
• Interdisciplinary follow-through.

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