Medicare paid for the one I got. I have one of those Medicare replacement programs. Secure horizons. They covered 80%, but the other 20% is $500 a month. The home version is the size of a hospital bed, but only the lower half has the sand. The top half is just the circulating air mattress. But it's badly designed the top half is like 6 inches taller than the bottom half. So you are constantly sliding down. And it is very hard for someone to slide you back up. I can only assume that it has to be that way to take pressure off your butt. So maybe it's a good design for pressure relief but a bad design for the patient. And you would think by now they could make this thing a bit quieter. And you can't tuck the sheets in, so they slip a lot. And you can use a top she, but if anything seeps through and gets on the bed cover you have to call the bed company to come out and clean it. the one good thing I can say about them is when the bed stopped working this weekend they were out within two hours to fix it. Greg
> That bad in the hospital during my long hospitalization and after > my surgery. If I had trouble using my Dragon also I did not know > you could get them at home I had mine at KU medical center Medicare > is primary and Blue Cross is secondary so I'm sure Medicare would > not pay for the bed at home? > My fixator put a hole in the mattress twice. > Dana > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jun 21, 2013, at 8:48 PM, greg <[email protected]> wrote: > >> My insurance covered the Clinatron bed. At least 80% of it >> anyway. I got a pressure sore on my butt again, it's the biggest
