by Andrew Morris
Access to people’s supplier of choice for power wheelchairs and other types of durable medical equipment has been restored after last week’s landmark vote to override the President’s veto of H.R. 6331. If the veto had been allowed to stand Medicare beneficiaries in certain cities would have been forced to give up choice in where they got and received services for their power wheelchairs.
More specific details from a fact sheet produced by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services can be viewed at: http://www.unitedspinal.org/pdf/mppa_facts.pdf.
