As you know we've been working of getting joseph his TiLite wheelchair most of the year.
When we finally got all of the paperwork in and the prescription written exactly 100% correctly, we had to wait. Wait a month for someone to come to the house to do another evaluation,and evaluation & measuring checking to make sure the he can indeed use a wheelchair. Which was supposed to be the final step in the long list of things we had to do in order for medicare to pay for the chair…nope that didn't happen.
Once everything went through we were ready to finalize the order when we were informed that we would have to pay 100% up front, the opposite of what we had been told the multiple times that we asked. The reason that we were going through the headache of all the paperwork and hoop jumping, was because we can't afford to pay for the pay on our own. Then Medicare decided that they no longer covered chairs coded k0009 only k0005, we scrambled to put together the paperwork for the correctly coded chair and then as we submitted that paperwork we were told that Medicare no longer covered TiLite chairs at all.
So as Joseph's old chair deteriorated and our options for getting his chair were falling apart…we bought the 2nd choice chair at 1/4 the price. It's identical to the chair he wanted except that it's made of aluminum instead of titanium. And being that we didn't have the cash on hand we put it on the credit card. As delighted as I am that we got the chair FINALLY!!! I'm equally frustrated that after everything we went through to get the chair (paperwork, appointments, evaluations, prescription revisions & many many phone calls) we ended up simply buying it!
Oh, it doesn't end there…..just wait. We were preparing to travel to Idaho for Grandpa Oswald's funeral & his chair was supposed to arrive the same day. We decided we didn't want to wait until 3-5 pm. So we called UPS, got on with the supervisor, then the dispatcher, and the driver of the truck it was on and arranged a pick up in transit. I didn't know exactly where that location was, luckily my little sister did, so we hurriedly jumped into the car and sped off. We made it and met the driver and loaded up the box, it took up my entire rear seat!
We got it home and assembled it, meaning that we put the wheels and the brakes on.
Rylee tried out the pad first
Taking it out for a spin before we packed it into the trunk for our trip to Idaho.
More updates coming!
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