Tag: Functional Mobility Assessment
In brief: Mobility study, ADS-StrideMD partnership, SoClean clearance
August 21, 2024HME News Staff
PITTSBURGH – Clinical investigators from the University of Pittsburgh and the Medical University of South Carolina recently published a study that shows different types of mobility devices and certain characteristics of people with limited mobility are associated with reported falls.
The study, published in the journal Disability & Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, and based on an analysis of more than 11,000 deidentified cases from the Functional Mobility Assessment and Uniform...
U.S. Rehab refreshes FMA dashboard
March 15, 2019HME News Staff
WATERLOO, Iowa - U.S. Rehab is in the final stages of releasing a new dashboard for its Functional Mobility Assessment tool, according to a blog post on its website. The new dashboard will have enhanced ease-of-use, more clearly defined graphics and menu selections, advanced diagnoses choices and more up-to-date demographic selections. U.S. Rehab says more details will be announced soon. More than 2,800 unique U.S. Rehab members and rehab institutions have now participated in the FMA outcomes program,...
U.S. Rehab leverages outcomes tool to score big contract
January 13, 2017Liz Beaulieu, Editor
WATERLOO, Iowa - U.S. Rehab has secured a Humana contract for its members for complex rehab and mobility products and services at higher reimbursement rates.The key: using the Functional Mobility Assessment outcomes tool, or FMA, to show that quality products and services are worth paying more for.“We didn't have a contract with Humana and now we have one,” said Greg Packer, president of U.S. Rehab, a division of The VGM Group. “We were able to show them the level of quality of...
Outcomes tool reveals trends in assistive devices
July 22, 2016Tracy Orzel
ARLINGTON, Va. - More than a year after U.S. Rehab launched the Functional Mobility Assessment tool to a select group of its members, the results are in—sort of.
“We're seeing a trend, but it's not statistically significant,” said Mark Schmeler, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, atthe RESNA/NCART 2016 Conference in Arlington, Va., in July.
Developed over the past 15 years by Schmeler and Margo Holm, also...