Tag: NCART
In brief: Numotion reports data incident, Abbott launches app
April 23, 2025HME News Staff
PHOENIX - Numotion recently learned that certain employee email accounts were accessed without authorization on several occasions between Sept. 2, 2024, and Nov. 18, 2024, the company said in a Notice of Data Security Incident posted on its website.
In the notice, the company states: “Numotion has no reason to believe that anyone was trying to access personal information in the accounts, and there is no indication that any information has been used for fraud or identity theft....
Short takes: Rehab fly-in, NCPA video
April 22, 2025HME News Staff
iNRRTS, NCART and U.S. Rehab are asking complex rehab stakeholders to mark their calendars for the 2025 Congressional Fly-in, scheduled for Sept. 16-17. More information is coming soon… The National Community Pharmacists Association has released two new episodes of its educational reality series, “Show Me,” this time diving deep into maternal vaccination programs. “Show Me,” which NCPA debuted in 2022, is a video series styled after popular TV makeover shows, only these...
Short takes: NCART, Pride Mobility
April 8, 2025HME News Staff
NCART hosted two days of meetings with legislators in Salem, Ore., to advocate for two bills related to right-to-repair and prior authorizations. Along with Wayne Grau, executive director of NCART, representatives from Bellevue Healthcare and National Seating & Mobility attended. “The group that attended did a great job educating members of the Oregon legislature about the issues with both bills,” Grau said. “Legislators often lack an understanding of the complexity of our industry...
CRT stakeholders strategize to advance new tech
March 28, 2025Liz Beaulieu, Editor
YARMOUTH, Maine – Complex rehab technology stakeholders in a recent webcast outlined their priorities for 2025, including getting a bill passed that would improve access to high-tech ultralightweight manual wheelchairs.
Previous versions of the bill nearly passed in late 2024, but there was “a hiccup,” said Wayne Grau, executive director of NCART, which hosted the webcast with U.S. Rehab.
“We couldn’t get it passed because one senator decided he wanted...
NCART update: Two more states approve power seat elevation
March 4, 2025HME News Staff
LUBBOCK, Texas – The Medicaid programs in North Dakota and Idaho have given the green light to power seat elevation, according to NCART. In North Dakota, the Medicaid program has approved the organization’s request to consider power seat elevation (E2298) as a covered benefit and has implemented coverage retroactively back to Feb. 1, 2025. The coverage criteria will be the same as those outlined in the National Coverage Determination and reimbursement will be set at $2,062.20. In Idaho,...
John Letizia joins expanded NCART board
January 24, 2025Liz Beaulieu, Editor
EDENSBURG, Pa. – After focusing on his business and his family life for several years, John Letizia, a former chairman of AAHomecare’s board of directors, is back in the industry spotlight, this time at NCART.
Letizia, president of Laurel Medical Solutions, which provides mobility and accessibility products and services, as well as HME, respiratory and O&P, was announced as a new board member of the association in December.
“I’m super excited,” he said....
CMS, PDAC detail plans for new E1028 code
January 20, 2025HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – CMS has accepted some but not all NCART’s recommendations as part of its preliminary decision on the PDAC’s code application to review E1028 and establish three new codes to describe manual, swing-away and retractable or removable mounting hardware used in conjunction with medically necessary wheelchair accessories. NCART agreed with the programmatic need for the change but requested CMS consider several edits to more accurately describe the components associated with...
NCART seeks to make telehealth flexibilities permanent
January 6, 2025HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – Now that Congress has extended telehealth flexibilities through March 2025, NCART says it will continue to work toward a permanent solution that allows PTs and OTs to receive coverage under Medicare for remote services related to the provision of complex rehab technology products. To preserve and protect access to CRT and promote continuity of care for beneficiaries, the organization says it will continue to advocate for permanently including PT and OT codes used in the provision...
Coverage, reform, technology among drivers of CRT
December 18, 2024Tracy Orzel
The push for better coverage in complex rehab continues to reshape the landscape, with experts highlighting key wins—most notably, securing funding for power seat elevation—and ongoing challenges as 2025 unfolds.
“Funding for power seat elevation definitely has been a huge win for the industry and the clients receiving this function on their power mobility devices,” said Jay Brislin, vice president of Quantum Rehab. “The amount of increased independence, social...
Power seat elevation: NCART zeroes in on access issues in Medicaid
December 6, 2024Liz Beaulieu, Editor
WASHINGTON – Now that there is a Medicare code and payment for power seat elevation systems, NCART is doing the painstaking work of making sure state Medicaid programs have a pathway to also cover the technology.
In November, for example, the organization announced that it had secured coverage for E2298 for adults 21 and over in Alabama starting Jan. 1, 2025, with help from Cathy Carver, PT, DPT, ATP/SMS, at University of Alabama Birmingham/Spain Rehabilitation Center, as well the...