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L.Bastion -> RE: Medicaid Forms? (9/28/2007 4:19:33 PM)
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To get medicare coverage for a lift chair, you will need 3 things.
• A CMN (Certificate of Medical Necessity)
• A bill of sale
• A doctor’s prescription for a lift chair and your doctor’s signature on the CMN.
Most distributors will provide the CMN straight from their website or through the mail and will also provide you with the bill of sale after purchase. There are 5 questions your doctor will need to answer on the CMN.
1. Does patient have severe arthritis of the hip or knees?
2. Does patient have a severe neuromuscular disease?
3. Is the patient completely incapable of standing up from a regular armchair or any chair in his/her home?
4. Once standing, does the patient have the ability to ambulate (walk or move about)?
5. Have all appropriate therapeutic modalities to enable the patient to transfer from a chair to a standing position (e.g., medication, physical therapy) been tried and failed? If YES, this is documented in the patient's medical records.
Your doctor will complete and sign the CMN. Once this is done by your doctor you will need to mail the CMN, bill of sale and doctor's prescription to your Medicare regional claims office. If you need some more information on this or lift chairs in general you can visit this site... http://www.lift-chair-store.com There's also a medicare reimbursment link there, and if you want to see a copy of an actual CMN you can see this page... http://www.lift-chair-store.com/cmn-form.pdf . It's in PDF format.
And you are also right, medicare will only cover the lifting mechanism, which is usually around $300.
Hope this helps you.
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