tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2009 Issue 19

INDUSTRY NOTES: Wheelchair Suppliers Balk at OIG Report

Plus: Michigan clinic manager pleads guilty to defrauding Medicare of $6.5 million. Suppliers' costs keep wheelchairs from being a cash crop. Industry insiders have taken exception to the Office of the Inspector General's August report that claimed Medicare and its beneficiaries paid up to four times more than the average amount paid by suppliers for wheelchairs. The report used "flawed methodology and incomplete data" to draw conclusions, claimed Eric Sokol, director of the Power Mobility Coalition (PMC), a nationwide association of manufacturers and suppliers of motorized wheelchairs and power operated vehicles. These "inaccuracies" could affect more than just...

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