Tag: scooters
Golden wins VA contract for scooters
May 20, 2024HME News Staff
OLD FORGE, Pa. – Golden Technologies has been awarded its fourth consecutive five-year contract by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to supply mobility products. The company submitted scooters in five categories and was awarded contracts for all of them. “We are ecstatic and incredibly honored to have been awarded the contract to continue providing top-of-the-line power mobility scooters to our veterans and introduce even more exceptional models in additional categories with this...
The Scooter Shop relocates
February 9, 2022HME News Staff
HANOVER, Md. – The Scooter Shop has a new 2,500-square-foot space in a retail center in the Perry Hall section of Baltimore County, according to the Commercial Observer. The company is relocating its showroom and corporate headquarters there from a 3,000-square-foot space in Elkridge, Md. “We expanded into Baltimore County at the 9810 Belair Road location to cover Baltimore County, Harford County, Cecil County, Southern Pennsylvania and Western Delaware,” Jim Luttrell, owner of...
Pride Mobility rebrands scooters
January 28, 2020HME News Staff
EXETER, Pa. - Pride Mobility has rebranded its scooters, creating the Zero Turn Series. The formerly named Jazzy Zero Turn Scooter and ZT10 Scooter are now the Zero Turn 8 Scooter and the Zero Turn 10 Scooter, respectively. “As our sales, marketing and research and development departments looked at how these products were evolving, we realized having a series would better show the consistencies of the two units,” said Renae Storie, vice president of Pride Mobility. “We want to have...
Mobility powers up
July 3, 2019John Andrews
As the mobility market becomes more technologically advanced and product demand continues to grow with the aging baby boomer generation, the outlook for wheelchair and scooter sales is that it will remain a strong category, offering HME providers a range of opportunities.Brad Peterson, vice president of professional affairs and clinical education for Invacare, says the Elyria, Ohio-based manufacturer is “heavily focused on GP3 power mobility” and that he sees “continued robust demand...
OIG pushes monthly rentals for all PMDs
May 23, 2017HME News Staff
WASHINGTON - Medicare could save millions if it sought legislation to shift from a lump-sum purchase option to a monthly rental payment for all power mobility devices, according to a report from the Office of Inspector General (OIG) published in May. In January 2011, Medicare eliminated the lump-sum purchase option for standard power wheelchairs, a move that saved $86 million from 2011 to 2014, according to the OIG. If legislation were in place to also eliminate this option for scooters and complex...
Taking the AP to task
April 8, 2013HME News Staff
Editor's note: The following is in response to a recent article written by the Associated Press and picked up by news outlets across the country.
We are very disappointed in the AP's reporting on a recent story about power scooters sales and believe that a correction, or at a minimum, a clarification is warranted. The story, which has appeared in media outlets worldwide, contains incomplete and misleading information in two specific areas. We strongly believe that if left uncorrected the perceptions...
Scooter Store lawsuit: What are the odds?
March 29, 2013Elizabeth Deprey
NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas - If you're a laid off employee suing The Scooter Store, you may want the company to turn things around, industry attorneys say.Ex-employee Anna Urbina filed a lawsuit March 15, claiming that The Scooter Store didn't give those who were laid off the 60-day notice required by the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN). But even if the lawsuit succeeds, whether or not she gets the 60 days of back pay and benefits she's seeking will depend on the company's financial...
Category development: Scooters
December 28, 2012John Andrews
RIPE FOR RETAILScooting ahead: Scooters are tailor-made for retail sales, and HME providers can make the transition with little expense or disruption. The biggest adjustment, manufacturers say, is changing the mindset to think like a consumer.SOFT SELLSubtlety required: Scooters aren't widgets, so providers must use restraint and finesse in dealing with clients. Consumers are looking for a consultant, not a sales agent, to help them select the right model for themselves.THE RIGHT MIXScooter...
Retail seen as key to boosting scooter sales
July 26, 2011John Andrews
Scooters fall into a category of their own within the mobility segment--a lifestyle product with a clinical purpose that is available through both insurance and retail channels. Yet while demand has progressively grown in recent years, coverage and funding have slipped, presenting scooter dealers with a dilemma about which sales channel deserves the most focus.
Mobility vendors concede that insurers--both public and private--are increasingly reluctant to cover scooters for beneficiaries and that...
Get a brain! It's morons, not morans
December 22, 2010Mike Moran
I got a call last month from Mike Kruse, a reporter with the St. Petersburg Times. Turns out a man on a moped crashed into a man driving a power wheelchair. Kruse had all kinds of questions for me: How big is the scooter market? How big is the power chair market? And on and on. I kind of enjoyed it. Usually, I'm the one asking questions so to have the tables turned was fun.
Here's what Kruse quoted me saying in the story he wrote:
"We're going to see more and more people riding around in scooters...