Your participation could make a difference!
Surveys can help gauge individual views and experiences. Your participation could make a difference in the overall health and well being of the ostomy community, as well as the products and services available within the marketplace.
Are you interested in inviting people to take your company’s survey? Please contact Christine Ryan at christine.ryan@ostomy.org.
Ostomy Supplies Advocacy Effort – We Need Your Help!
UOAA is partnering again with the Access and Care Coalition on an advocacy effort.
If you have Medicare or Medicaid for health insurance and have been denied ostomy supplies over the allowable quantity limit despite medical necessity being provided, please participate in this survey or scan the QR code. We will be collecting responses for the next couple of weeks.
By sharing your insurance denial story, you are helping us provide the evidence we need to ensure you have the ostomy supplies you need, and we will be sharing de-identified data with policymakers to help fix this problem. Together, we will improve essential coverage for ostomy supplies.
Ostomy Supply Purchasing Survey
You are invited to share your experience with ordering ostomy supplies by participating in this brief survey. Your responses will offer valuable insights that will help improve the supply purchasing process by revealing current purchasing trends. Responses are completely anonymous and will be combined with those of other participants to provide collective insights.
Sanitary Ostomy Drainage Device (SODD) Survey
Current ostomy pouch drainage methods are awkward and sometimes painful; improvements are long-overdue. The Sanitary Ostomy Drainage Device (SODD) bridges the gap between pouches and toilets, for any mobile upright patient to directly drain the waste contents into any toilet. It aims at enhancing hygiene, comfort, and independence for ostomy patients.
To all who have taken the original version of this survey, which was posted on our site from July 15, 2024 to September 15, 2024: Dr. Foda thanks you for the provided information, which has enabled him to produce an updated version of the SODD for single ostomate home use. And, at this time, he asks if you would kindly retake an updated survey which includes new images of the modified prototype:
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UOAA may ask you to take a survey in the future.
Disclaimer: UOAA does not endorse particular products, manufacturers, or suppliers, and is not responsible for any content expressed in sponsor websites or within their surveys.
Contact Us
United Ostomy Associations of America
P.O. Box 2293
Biddeford, ME 04005-2293
Call us toll-free at: 1-800-826-0826.
Our Information Line hours are Monday-Friday, 9am to 3pm EST. If you have an emergency, please dial 911 or contact your local medical professional.
Please understand that UOAA is a private, nonprofit, advocacy and informational organization. We are not a medical facility and we do not have medical or legal professionals on staff. Therefore, UOAA does not provide Medical, Mental Health, Insurance or Legal Advice. Visit UOAA Virtual Ostomy Clinic provided by The Wound Company for non-emergency, virtual ostomy support.
