subject: Lift Chairs and Medicare In Today's World [print this page] Lift Chairs and Medicare In Today's World
It was in the early nineteen nineties that Medicare stopped reimbursements for electric lift chairs, and will nowadays only reimburse for the chair's motor and lift mechanism. Usually, this comes out to be about three hundred dollars. These chairs are designed in such a way that they help those with limited mobility to get up from chairs. Coming in different shapes, sizes and colors these chairs are ideal in the sense that they reduce the strain on those whose medical conditions inhibit them from properly standing up from chairs. There are many factors which are considered when it comes to dealing with Medicare lift chair reimbursement.
For starters, there were quite a number of questions which needed to be answered when it was possible to have a lift recliner chair reimbursement from Medicare. For instance, it had to be established whether or not the patient was suffering from severe arthritis of the hip or knees, or whether they were suffering from neuromuscular disease. Also, it had to be established whether the seat lift mechanism was part of the physicians' treatment course. Besides that, it had to be established whether the prescription for buying of the lift chair was part of ensuring improved health on the patient's side.
A doctor's report is extremely crucial when making any lift recliner purchase, as it shows the need and also gives the required information regarding the level of your problem, information which those either shipping or coming up with the chair can come up with one suited to your needs. Medicare is among the organizations dealing with lift chairs, but as mentioned earlier it stopped reimbursement sometime back. But there used to be well laid down procedures as to how to go about the whole issue. Given the current way of life where immobility diseases are increasingly becoming common, there is need to come up with comprehensive plans for such equipment.
