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Yesterday, I received a letter from the supplier on renting/purchasing my

hospital bed. Essentially MC has already paid for it with the outrageous

rental charges. It seems as though MC will pay the rental for 5 more

months. Apparently, after 15 months we still have use of the bed but have to

pay a maintenance fee twice a year whether its serviced or not. We don't

want to have to worry about disposing of it later. Does just keeping it

after the rental make sense then?

Dodie in MO

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Note that Medicare will pay it's portion of the maintenance agreement, so it is

worth keeping. One motor failure can cost more than the maintenance cost. Yes

it is worth keeping on power equipment. Manual chairs may not need it.

Take care, Bill Werre

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> Yesterday, I received a letter from the supplier on renting/purchasing my

> hospital bed. Essentially MC has already paid for it with the outrageous

> rental charges. It seems as though MC will pay the rental for 5 more

> months. Apparently, after 15 months we still have use of the bed but have to

> pay a maintenance fee twice a year whether its serviced or not. We don't

> want to have to worry about disposing of it later. Does just keeping it

> after the rental make sense then?

> Dodie in MO

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I received the same kind of letter the other day. It seems to make the

most sense to me to let them own it continue to rent Medicare will make 5

more payments then you will have a zero balance. However they will pay 80%

of the upkeep.. who would use it after you didn't want it? and repairs

could be expensive

hospital bed...

Yesterday, I received a letter from the supplier on renting/purchasing my

hospital bed. Essentially MC has already paid for it with the outrageous

rental charges. It seems as though MC will pay the rental for 5 more

months. Apparently, after 15 months we still have use of the bed but have

to

pay a maintenance fee twice a year whether its serviced or not. We don't

want to have to worry about disposing of it later. Does just keeping it

after the rental make sense then?

Dodie in MO

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Hi: I will jump in with food for thought. We bought all of the equipment that

Jack had to have. After it was rented for so many months, it became ours.

None of it needed maintenance, but many people have no insurance or way to get

the equipment they need for various illnesses. After Jack died I made gifts to

various people who were in that position, and they were so grateful and I felt

like something good came out of that terrible need for us to have all of that

stuff. Someone even called me an angel. Now isn't that something. If they

only knew, but that is O.K. It is nice to be called something nice now and

again.

Hugs, Judy

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We had a hospital bed for about four years. After the first thirteen months

during which Medicare and our supplement paid for the rent, we were given the

choice of owning it out right or having the Home Health Agency continue to

own it and having Medicare and in insurance pay the cost of insurance to

repair it. We chose the second option because I figured that I didn't want an

old bed around after Ken died, and Insurance would pay for a new one if I

ever need it. I was very glad I had chosen this option when the motor broke

down, and they replaced it at no expense or trouble to us. I had the same

arrangement for the wheelchair, and they repaired that also at no expense to

me. Not everyone uses this equipment as long as we did, but it does break

down under continuous heavy use such as we gave it. I put an eggcrate pad on

the mattress that came with the bed, and that worked until Hospice brought us

a floating air pad to use. it was much better and must be available to anyone

whose doctor writes a prescription. It's purpose was to help with bedsores,

but ken seemed to love its rocking motion.

Barbara

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