Stakeholders, including PAMES, push for complex rehab carve-out
By HME News Staff
Updated 9:56 AM CST, Tue February 14, 2023
OLYMPIA, Wash. – The Pacific Association of Medical Equipment Services (PAMES) and providers in Washington state are working closely with patient advocates to build support for legislation to create a sales and use tax exemption for complex rehab technology products, according to AAHomecare. Providers and patient and disability advocates recently testified in support of S-5218 during a hearing before the Ways & Means Committee of the state Senate. In addition, PAMES and patient advocates got 95 people and organizations to register their support for the bill with the committee prior to the hearing. AAHomecare shared a letter of support, as well as written testimony and documentation from groups like NCART, U.S. Rehab and National Seating & Mobility. Testifying at the meeting were Don Whitney of Inland Medical and Rehab, Bryce Schaffner of Bellevue Healthcare and Shawn Latham of Allies in Advocacy.
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