Custom Manual Wheelchairs
Custom Manual Wheelchairs
Travis Medical prides itself on the wide selection of products we offer, which allows us to offer the most appropriate product selection and a perfect fit for each client. We offer products from a variety of manufacturers each offering a wide variety of features, sizes, colors, and accessories.
A standard manual wheelchair may be considered for prior authorization when the following criteria are met:
- The client has impaired mobility and is unable to ambulate more than 10 feet.
- The client does not require specialty seating components.
- The client is not expected to need powered mobility within the next 5-year period.
A standard hemi-wheelchair may be considered for prior authorization when the client meets the criteria for standard manual wheelchair (above), as well as:
- The client requires low seat-to-floor height
- The client must use their feet to propel the wheelchair
A standard tilt-in-space wheelchair may be considered for prior authorization when the client meets the criteria for a standard manual wheelchair (above) as well as the following:
- The client develops fatigue with longer periods of sitting upright.
- The client is at increased risk of pressure sores with prolonged upright position.
- The client requires assistance with respiration in a reclining position.
- The client needs to perform mobility related activities of daily living (MRADLs) in a reclining position
- The client needs to improve venous return from lower extremity in a reclining position.
- The client has severe spasticity.
- The client has excess extensor tone of the trunk muscles.
- The client has quadriplegia.
- The client has a fixed hip angle.
- The client must rest in a reclining position two or more times per day.
- The client has the inability or has great difficulty transferring from wheelchair to bed.
- The client has trunk or lower extremity casts or braces that require the reclining feature for positioning.
A lightweight manual wheelchair may be considered for prior authorization by Texas Medicaid when the client meets the following criteria:
- The client is unable to propel a standard manual wheelchair at home.
- The client is capable of independently propelling a lightweight wheelchair to meet their MRADLs at home.
- The client meets criteria for a standard manual wheelchair.
- The client weighs more than 300 pounds.
Please feel free to visit our manufacturers websites for additional information.