The bill also proposes eliminating prior authorization for Medicaid, as well as requiring companies to maintain a customer service support line and a sufficient stockpile of wheelchair parts.

Both bills eliminate the prior authorization requirements for repairs under $1,000, require there be an inventory of wheelchair parts available and include varying enforcement provisions. “This ...

On Monday, both chambers of the California Legislature approved SB 1384, a bill to allow wheelchair users expanded opportunity to repair their mobility equipment, and it now awaits the Governor's ...

For the roughly 5,500 wheelchair users in Connecticut, wait times have increased in recent years and in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Wheelchair users are calling long wait times for wheelchair repairs an enduring “crisis of ... and buy pieces like batteries and tires from other companies — parts he said have to be ...