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​The mission of the Access & Care Coalition is to counter restricted consumer access to medical supplies under Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance. The Access & Care Coalition consists of urological and ostomy medical technology suppliers and manufacturers, as well as clinician, physician, and consumer and disability advocates.

Access to Ostomy Supplies 101 Webinar

November 16, 2023

United Spinal Association’s Access and Care Coalition hosted “Access to Ostomy Supplies 101” webinar to learn how ostomy supplies are covered by insurance and how users of ostomy supplies can advocate for themselves when requests are denied by insurance. Hear from ostomates, clinicians and ostomy suppliers and manufacturers for best practices and tips on how to best manage your own ostomy care and supplies.

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Access to Catheters 101 Webinar

March 8, 2023

United Spinal Association’s Access and Care Coalition hosted a webinar: Access to Catheters 101. Topics covered included how catheters are covered by insurance and how catheter users can advocate for themselves when requests are denied by insurance. We heard from catheter users, clinicians and catheter suppliers and manufacturers for best practices and tips on how to best manage your catheter supplies.

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The Coalition will take action on health policy matters that:

  1. Are in the best interests of high quality care that maximize function and independent living for people with disabilities;
  2. Can provide people with disabilities with their choice of, and access to, the prescribed and medically appropriate urological and ostomy medical technology and supplies.

Working closely with consumer and disability advocates, providers and manufacturers of continence care products and the physician and clinical communities, the Coalition has agreed to work within the regulatory and/or legislative framework to address coverage, coding and payment policy changes as they relate to urological and ostomy medical technology and supplies, medical documentation improvements and standards of care.

The Coalition promotes reform In order to develop a set of principles about urological and ostomy medical technology and supplies that can provide consumers with disabilities with their choice of and access to medically appropriate urological medical technology and supplies.

United Spinal Association and United Spinal’s Access and Care Coalition want to ensure that all individuals with a medical condition or disability requiring urological or ostomy prosthetic supplies have access to the supplies prescribed by their health care providers. We ask that policymakers:

  • Recognize that individuals require access to urological and ostomy prosthetic supplies that meet their specific medical needs, and that such products are not generic, one-type-fits-all commodities.
  • Ensure Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurers within state/federal health care marketplaces cover the full range of prescribed urological and ostomy prosthetic supplies, and do so in a manner that is not economically burdensome for the consumer.
  • Ensure fair Medicare and Medicaid coding and coverage processes that recognize the function of urological and ostomy medical supplies and will permit new innovative urological and ostomy technologies to come to market.

Access to urology and ostomy supplies: are you getting what you need?
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Coalition Partners