Tag: Power standing
Minnesota Senate bill seeks power standing coverage
February 12, 2025HME News Staff
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - A bill was introduced in the Minnesota Senate that would require health insurance plans, medical assistance and MinnesotaCare to cover power standing systems for wheelchairs. The bill, SF 974, mandates that all health plans provide this coverage without imposing additional cost-sharing requirements, review limitations or quantity restrictions beyond one system every five years. Health plans must report their costs related to this new benefit, and the commissioner will evaluate...
Senators also support power seat elevation
November 1, 2021HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – Sens. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., and Robert Casey, D-Pa., have sent a letter to CMS asking the agency to amend the national coverage determination for mobility assistive equipment to affirm coverage of standing and seat elevation systems embedded in power wheelchairs. “This should be followed by CMS developing necessary local coverage determinations to assess the medical necessity for such equipment on an individual basis in accordance with the NCD...
Complex rehab stakeholders prep request, form consortium
August 21, 2020Liz Beaulieu, Editor
WASHINGTON - Complex rehab stakeholders have taken steps to advance key initiatives related to power seat elevation and power standing systems, and telehealth and remote services. Stakeholders, led by the ITEM Coalition, have created four work groups (clinical, reimbursement/technology, legal and congressional/advocacy) to work on filing a request for reconsideration of the Medicare NCD for power seat elevation and power standing systems. They're almost ready to submit that request, said Don Clayback...