Urge Congress to Ensure Access to Quality Rehabilitation Technology

Ask your members of Congress to cosponsor and pass the Ensuring Access to Quality Complex Rehabilitation Technology Act, which would help ensure that those living with significant disabilities — including progressive MS — can access complex wheelchairs and scooters to have their medical needs met and remain independent.

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As a constituent and MS activist, I ask you to cosponsor and pass the Ensuring Access to Quality Complex Rehabilitation Technology Act (S. 948/H.R. 942).

Multiple sclerosis (MS), an unpredictable, often disabling disease of the central nervous system, interrupts the flow of information within the brain, and between the brain and body. Most people with MS are diagnosed between the ages of 20 and 50, with two to three times more women than men; symptoms range from numbness and tingling to blindness and paralysis.

By creating a separate benefit in Medicare for complex rehabilitation technology (CRT), this bill protects access to medically necessary, customized CRT like complex wheelchairs and scooters for people with significant disabilities including progressive MS. This is vital to helping this population remain independent.

The bill also enhances quality standards for CRT, establishes clinical standards to ensure that CRT products are being prescribed appropriately, and supports community integration by allowing people leaving skilled nursing facilities to obtain these products as they transition into the community, and lifting Medicare's "in-the-home" restriction.

This bipartisan legislation is supported by over 40 national organizations. Please cosponsor S. 948/H.R. 942 today to support the medical needs and independence of people living with significant disabilities, including progressive MS.

Thank you for moving us closer to a world free of MS.

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