United Spinal launches website effort to fight 'in-home' restriction
WASHINGTON, DC, MAY 25, 2005-- Efforts to get the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to change its "unreasonable policy" which restricts motorized wheelchairs to use online inside an individual's home have increased. Justice For All reports that Congressmen Jim Langevin (D-RI), himself a wheelchari user, and Charlie Bass (R-NH) are circulating a bipartisan "Dear Colleague" letter in the House of Representatives asking members to sign onto a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt asking him to change the policy. JFA is asking advocates to contact their Representative to sign the letter.