Update on dad's wheelchair situation

Got a call this morning from the guys that are trying (snort) to get my dad a powered wheel chair. You remember them, right? They've been "trying" since last March or something. Well it seems that they need the paperwork from dad's doctor, *AGAIN*. This is going to be the fourth time that she has filled out their 4 page form on why she thinks my dad needs a wheel chair. They also need another prescription for him because the old one expired. This will make the third prescription that they have needed.

Why you ask do they need all this again? Who knows. The last time they had her fill out the form they demanded it be hand delivered back to their office because their fax machine was not printing clearly. Today when my mom complained about how long it has taken Medicare to say yes or no on the chair the gal talking to her informed her that it's not Medicare, it's the folks in this office here that are taking all this time deciding if *they* will approve him for a powered wheel chair before they decide if they even talk to Medicare about it. ........(insert long unamused pause)........... Why does it take them eight months, three prescriptions and four multi-page forms to decide if a 77 year old retired veteran of three major wars with stroke-induced paralysis is worthy of five minutes of their time to ask Medicare if they will approve him of a powered wheel chair? And he has Tri-Care which, for those who don't know what that is, picks up the cost of any prescribed things that Medicare don't pay for. It won't cost Geneva Wood even one penny and they're yanking him around and not even bothering to *ask* Medicare about him?

I dug back through posts on my Family C.A.R.E. blog earlier and found the one I had posted for CouponChief for 1-800-wheelchairs¹ and went to look at their site. Seriously contemplating going through them instead of Geneva Wood, so I printed a bunch of things out for my mom to look over.

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¹You can find that post here