In Ohio, Wheelchair's that need to be customized, such as, recline, tilt in space, power vents and such took about 6 months before. I was told by my facilitators that it could take as much as a year with new procedures. When my chair is 6 years old I intend to begin the replacement process. You know this is gone send the suicide rate higher. I find most people get depressed while awaiting some inbred mouth breathing nincompoop of a bureaucrat to rubber stamp things that are medically necessary. The biggest waste of money in our healthcare system seems to be the bureaucrats that perform such limited functions that nobody notices they died untill paperwork is backed up over a year. john -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: quad-list@eskimo.com Sent: Tue, 15 May 2007 3:09 PM Subject: [QUAD-L] NEW CHAIR
Most will be very surprised and disappointed with CMS new procedures to prevent fraud. CMS has created 5 groups of acceptable electric wheelchairs. A new chairs have to be designed, engineered and manufactured around these new 5 groups. Competitive bidding, in 10 areas of this country. If you are a local DME and you try to quote higher than the competitive high.... you lose. This will add to the time of getting a new chair from beginning to receipt. As I said, its not very pretty. W In a message dated 5/15/2007 1:21:34 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Invacare seems to have some good designs but then its like before we can have there chair, a bean counter reduces quality of parts and downsizes the batteries. Mine has enough clearance to hold two very large batteries yet it has two tiny batteries and to reduce power and life even more the chair comes with gell cels that only put out 50 amps. (100 combined). The motors are also downgraded from whats available. I've had luck with the DME. They come ASAP and do their best to fix everything as fast as posible. I'm glad we have any choice at all. Medicare is trying to get us all to ride in Jazzys. This is the wheelchair version of a barbi car. John Smith ----- Original Message ---- See what's free at AOL.com. ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com.
