Tag: skin protection
Hot seat
June 23, 2009Liz Beaulieu, Editor
The rehab industry scored a victory last week when the medical directors agreed to add some but not all of the diagnoses it suggested to the list of conditions that qualify patients for skin protection and seat and back cushions for wheelchairs. For skin protection cushions, approved diagnoses now include 342.0 hemiplegia/hemiparesis, 333.4 Huntington's chorea, 333.6 idiopathic torsion dystonia, 333.71 athetoid cerebral palsy and transverse myelitis. For seat and back cushions, they include...
