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Will Insurance Cover A Lift Chair If The Client Can Walk?

Amber L. Ward, MS, OTR/L, BCPR, ATP/SMS

October 24, 2016

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Will insurance cover a lift chair if the client can walk?

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Yes. Medicare and most insurances pay for the motors of the lift chair, not the fluffy part that you sit on but the motor that lifts the lift chair up, which is about 320 dollars. You can get as fancy of a lift chair as you want, but they will only pay that amount. To be covered by Medicare and most insurances, they have to be able to take steps once it lifts you up. You cannot get a lift chair after you get a power wheelchair or a manual chair as they will not cover it. Remember, all things in order. 


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Amber L. Ward, MS, OTR/L, BCPR, ATP/SMS

Amber Ward has been a treating occupational therapist for 22 years; 10 years in inpatient rehabilitation, and 12 years as full time Occupational Therapy Coordinator with persons with ALS, muscular dystrophies, MS, Parkinson's, and other neurological disorders. She has treated a wide variety of patients, of all ages and functional levels. She currently is an adjunct professor at the OTA program at Cabarrus College of Health Sciences in addition to working in the clinic. She received the RESNA Assistive Technology Professional certification in 2004, a Seating and Mobility Specialist in 2013 and became AOTA board certified in physical rehabilitation in 2010. She is the author of two articles about power wheelchairs with persons with ALS, and numerous other book chapters and articles. She presents locally, nationally and internationally about ALS, power wheelchairs, research and neurodegenerative diseases. 
 


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