Hi All,
I'm trying to help an 85 year old woman on medicare who was just put on oxygen. Apparantly medicare won't pay for portable units...so she's basically house bound. The "portable" oxygen is a large tank that she's supposed to wheel around. It's too big to carry up and down stairs and very awkward.
Ofcourse she has no money, so I'm wondering if anyone has ideas on how to get her the small portable unit? Can we challenge the medicare system? Oh my goodness!
Is there any place that sells used portable concentrators? The concentrator is much preferable to the oxygen tanks.
Thanks for any experience and suggestions,
Suzanne