Representatives push standing systems
By HME News Staff
Updated 10:05 AM CDT, Wed September 18, 2024
WASHINGTON – NCART reports that Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pa., and Debbie Dingell, D-Mich., leaders of the Disability Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives, have introduced a “Dear Colleague” letter asking CMS to open the coverage determination for power standing systems. “Please contact your U.S. representative today and urge them to sign on to the Dingell/Fitzpatrick congressional sign-on letter urging CMS to promptly open the NCA and public comment period regarding coverage for standing systems in power wheelchairs,” the organization stated in an email bulletin. The letter is a follow up to an earlier letter in June 2023. It also follows a letter in August from U.S. Sens. Bob Casey, D-Iowa, Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., and Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., which called on CMS to extend Medicare coverage to standing systems. The original request to cover standing systems was submitted in September 2020.
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