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Monday, September 18, 2006

National Contracting with Linkia "Frightening"

To my esteemed colleagues,

It's both interesting and rather frightening to read about national contracting exclusively with Linkia. Just the other day, I received notice from Great West that they are ending their contract with my company as of October 31, 2006. I have not called then yet to inquire, but I fear that Linkia may be involved.

As an independent provider of O and P, I wonder about the options. One that continues to bother me is why no one has proposed a class action lawsuit based on Hanger and Linkia forming a monopoly in this aspect of health care. I realize that Hanger pays more to lawyers than my meager company brings in per year and they have undoubtedly reasearched this, but if they do create a monopoly, I believe there are grounds for legal action.

Any smart lawyers out there interested? I'll sign up.

Karl Entenmann, CPO

posted by Daniel Gottry at 10:15 PM