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Medicare Wheelchair/Scooter Investigation
March 2004Disability Rights Advocates (DRA) is currently investigating complaints by Medicare beneficiaries nationwide who have experienced difficulty trying to obtain power and manual wheelchairs and scooters. If you have had difficulty getting the equipment you need from Medicare, please let us know. We are investigating experiences people have had getting wheelchairs that work in their homes, as well as the experiences of people trying to get wheelchairs/scooters that work outside their homes. We cannot ensure that we will be able to reply to every response, but we will do our best. At this time, we are not investigating issues more than two years old.
Please do not worry about providing supporting documentation at this time unless you believe we will not understand your description without it. We just need a summary in your words of your experience. DRA will treat all replies as confidential.
To contact us, please:
Email DRA Legal.
In the subject heading please write Medicare(DME).
Fax us at 510-451-8511. On the fax please write Medicare (DME).Write us at:
Disability Rights Advocates
Attn: Medicare DME
449 15th Street. Suite 303
Oakland, CA 94609If none of these is accessible to you, please call us at 510-451-8644.
However, it is important for us to have a written description of your problem, and we do not have a large staff to field phone calls. Please write or email us if these are accessible to you.
Please reply as soon as possible. Replies received after March 31 are very helpful but may not be able to receive the same attention.
Helena Phillibert
Law Clerk/Princeton Project Intern
Disability Rights Advocates
449 15th Street, Suite 303
Oakland, CA
DRA Legal website
Tel: 510-451-8644
Fax: 510-451-8511
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