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A 3 page paper providing a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) requesting that Medicare approve the use of used electric mobility scooters, abandoning the current requirement that patients receive new equipment only. There are many used devices that cannot be sold, and cannot be re-used by Medicare. At an average cost of more than $7,000 each, CMS is ignoring a significant point of cost savings. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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3 pages (~225 words per page)
File: CC6_KShlthPolScoot.rtf
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A wealthy landlord - earning more than $5,000 monthly from five rented properties and in negotiation for the sale of 100 acres of suburban land for development - was
advised he needed a knee replacement in early 2003. He decided to wait for the surgery for six months, until after he had another birthday and Medicare would cover
the total cost of the procedure. Using his private health care insurance would have required a 20 percent copayment. After the surgery, Medicare also treated him to a
free electric scooter (Medicares price was $6,500); he complained that he had to purchase for himself the $800 lift for his car. Medicare
appears to have gone from one extreme to the other in its stance on providing electric mobility carts for seniors. Until December 2003, virtually anyone who could persuade their
physician to write a prescription for the devices could acquire one through any retailer, which of course would complete all of the paperwork required by Medicare. In December 2003,
the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a policy statement altering the requirements for qualifying for one of these devices (CMS Restricts Access, 2004). From offering an
electric scooter to virtually anyone over the age of 65, CMS current position is that no individual will be approved to receive one of these carts without meeting two tests:
(1) s/he is unable to take a single step with the aid of a walker; and (2) s/he is unable to operate a manual wheelchair.
At an average cost of $7,000 each, there is no question that CMS desperately needed to address the proliferation of requests for the devices. Rather than
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