Take Action Today For the One Million Ostomates As Supply Management In Jeopardy 7-25-25

Have One Leg Up for the ostomates that you know by helping take action and stop CMS from entering ostomy supplies into competitive bidding market! #MyAccessMatters https://www.ostomy.org/take-ac...

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, we'll get to more content here on the
One Leg Up network, but I gotta say at One
Leg Up Alex, something very personal has hit home, and
it's amazing. This comes as Ada thirty five. It's hitting
tomorrow because it just shows American's Disabilities Act is only

(00:21):
going so far. When you read that those with ostomy
supplies are in jeopardy of effectively managing their ostomy and
supply management. See when the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services proposes this dangerous change, as written by Jene Gliba

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of the UOAA, they want to redefine osteme and urological
supplies as medical equipment items to include them in competitive bidding,
which is a system where supplier's bid to offer the
lowest prices for Medicare contracts, meaning limited choices for you

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or your patients. And as I said in Washington, DC
to those in office and those staffers in the offices
of Senator Schumer and Senator Booker and Congressman Van Drew,
if you force people to change where they get their supplies,
it's gonna throw off their regimen. They're gonna throw off
their routine. It's also going to help them to help

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their it's also not gonna help their chances to always adapt.
It'll hurt their chances actually, And when I got this alert,
it affected me too, because of course we love edge
Park and we want to keep that partnership with edge
Park supplies and we don't want to lose that ability

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to just get your ass to me and my ass
to me freely. So if you want to take action,
just share my access matters as a hashtag on your
social media and be sure to follow the UOAA underscore
on Instagram for further updates. Again, this breaking news story

(02:09):
is as follows UOAA saying that right now, ostomy supplies
are in danger of being exclusive. If you will, it
means you may not get the supplies you need or
quite frankly or comfortable with. And we want comfort, we

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want care. We don't want to be having to scramble
should CMS Gov go through with this, So take action
at astome dot org, backslash, take dash action, or just
click the link in the bio, and I'm gonna share
this in my story as well. This is why advocacy
never ends. Always, adapting never ends, because there's always roadblocks,

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there's always challenges, and I hope those listening and have
a loved one with an ostomy can take this into
consideration and do something to support those friends and family
and even strangers in a time where it looks like

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it looks like there's real jeopardy to effectively managing our ostomies.
That's it for now, but to have one leg up,
we have to take action. We have to say my
access matters today.