Medicare

Power wheelchair industry starts lobbying

Published in Law and Health Weekly, March 27th, 2004

Medicare is refusing to pay for Andy Campbell's recently delivered $6,242 motorized wheelchair despite the advanced prostate cancer and heart disease that makes his every step painful.

Campbell, a former California policeman who lives in Henderson, Nevada, will not be stuck with the bill under Medicare rules. Unless the government changes its mind, the Scooter Store, based in New Braunfels, Texas, will absorb the loss.

The medical equipment company and four other businesses are undertaking a national lobbying campaign, starting with a commitment of about $250,000, to challenge Medicare's new get-tough policy on reimbursements for power wheelchairs....

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