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Medicare: CMS Did Not Control Rising Power Wheelchair Spending.

Publication: General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony
Publication Date: 01-MAY-04
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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GAO-04-716T April 28, 2004

Medicare spending for power wheelchairs, one of the program's most expensive items of durable medical equipment (DME), rose 450 percent from 1999 through 2003, while overall Medicare spending rose by about 11 percent for the same period, according to the Centers...

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