Dr. Grant Steffan This is Me

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 Web References

1. 1. Medical necessity certifications by physicians

   www.cochlearimplant.org/sys-tm - [Cached]

   Published on: 5/15/2003   Last Visited: 5/15/2003

   Despite the subsequent resignations of Cochlear's top two reimbursement personnel objecting to Cochlear's refusal to change such practices (see affidavit below showing one was demoted for objecting), Cochlear President and CEO Ronald E. West met personally with Grant Steffan, MD, the medical director for the Medicare carrier to assure him that Cochlear did not write letters of medical necessity for physicians, or sign their names.
   ...
   Dr. Steffan promptly eliminated Medicare coverage for replacement speech processors effective January 1, 1997--coverage which Cochlear's reimbursement department had lobbied the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) and Congress for nearly two years to secure.

2. 2. Medical necessity certifications by physicians

   www.cochlear.org/sys-tmpl/cert - [Cached]

   Published on: 5/2/2006   Last Visited: 12/5/2007

   Despite the subsequent resignations of Cochlear's top two reimbursement personnel objecting to Cochlear's refusal to change such practices (see affidavit below showing one was demoted for objecting), Cochlear President and CEO Ronald E. West met personally with Grant Steffan, MD, the medical director for the Medicare carrier to assure him that Cochlear did not write letters of medical necessity for physicians, or sign their names.
   ...
   Dr. Steffan promptly eliminated Medicare coverage for replacement speech processors effective January 1, 1997--coverage which Cochlear's reimbursement department had lobbied the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) and Congress for nearly two years to secure.

3. 3. Medical necessity certifications by physicians

   www.cochlear.org/sys-tmpl/cert - [Cached]

   Published on: 6/1/1997   Last Visited: 12/5/2007

   Despite the subsequent resignations of Cochlear's top two reimbursement personnel objecting to Cochlear's refusal to change such practices (see affidavit below showing one was demoted for objecting), Cochlear President and CEO Ronald E. West met personally with Grant Steffan, MD, the medical director for the Medicare carrier to assure him that Cochlear did not write letters of medical necessity for physicians, or sign their names.
   ...
   Dr. Steffan promptly eliminated Medicare coverage for replacement speech processors effective January 1, 1997--coverage which Cochlear's reimbursement department had lobbied the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) and Congress for nearly two years to secure.