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The remainder is often picked up by supplemental insurance or the government-funded Medicaid program for low-income and disabled Americans. The process can help immobile seniors get equipment that improves their lives. Ernest Tornabell of Boynton Beach, Fla. The year-old suffers from obesity, diabetes and lung disease and says he used to never leave his house.

Now, using the scooter he can walk his dog, go to the grocery store and run other errands. Now I have a lot more mobility," said Tornabell, whose doctor recommended that he get the device.

But Dr. Stephen Peake, medical director for the insurer Blue Cross Blue Shield in Tennessee, says doctors can often be as uninformed about the appropriate role of scooters as patients. One reason for the confusion? Doctors say scooter companies are just as aggressive with health professionals as they are in marketing to their patients. Jerome Epplin of Litchfield, Ill. But he said that sales representatives from some scooter companies put pressure on him by accompanying patients to his office.

The effect is coercive, he says. In the U. Hoveround Corp. Petersburg, Fla. Cole said the new store focuses on Hoveround's core competency: mobility. Located up front near the cash registers, the square-foot space includes the company's power wheelchairs and scooters, lift chairs from Golden Technologies, rollators and manual wheelchairs from Sunrise Medical and ramps from Prairie View Industries. He added that non-core business will be referred to other local DME dealers.

Hoveround moved into the location under an agreement with Boston-based Companion Health Services, which has a master lease arrangement with Wal-Mart.

Since late , the company has sublet space to a growing list of HME companies — among them Apria and The Scooter Store — that currently operate at 48 Wal-Mart stores in 24 states. Hoveround's location is the 49th. The doctors, the referral sources, PTs, OTs. It's a good place to extend our hand and let them know what we're all about. How can you go wrong?

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