Lazyboy Ascot Lift Chair The Ascot is compact, comfortable, quiet and easily moveable. This chair features compact comfort in a chair supported by a New Zealand manufacturer. Note: This item is too bulky to be delivered. You can also purchase this product in our stores: Hamilton, Tauranga, Rotorua, Gisborne A full comfort ‘Waterfall’ back An adjustable upholstered back support A narrow profile to go through normal domestic doors Single motor, feet first action, so that the calf rest rises in advance of the seat recline to enable a more upright position, while still supporting the legs A wall hugging recline, allowing chair to be put close to wall Small castors to ease movement for vacuuming A full chaise calf rest Superior quality Chardonay fabric with a 12 month warranty The correct height for ease of entry and exit On-site support for repair Support by extablished New Zealand manufacturer, Morgan’s Furniture
Warranty: 10 year on frame and foam, 2 year on recliner mechanism, 12 month on fabric and electrical components This item is too bulky to be delivered.You can purchase it here online, but will need to pick it up from one of our stores. When your purchase it online the checkout process will ask you which store you want to pick it up from. You can choose from Hamilton, Tauranga, Rotorua, or Gisborne. You add other items to your same order, and pick it all up at once. (If you would like us to ship the smaller items out to you, you will need to order the smaller items in a separate transaction). We’re here to help. These are the ways you can get hold of us: Phone us during work hours on 0800 008 011. Visit one of our stores – in Hamilton, Tauranga, Rotorua, or Gisborne. Or send us a message right now:Medicare is paying an average of about $60 million a year for mechanized lounge chairs that have questionable medical value, a draft report by the Department of Health and Human Services says.
The department's inspector general is investigating several companies that sell the chairs, looking for fraud, said Judy Holz, spokeswoman for the inspector's office. She would not say how many companies were being investigated or the type of possible fraud. The seats of the chairs raise mechanically to help people stand up. Advertised as ''seat lift chairs,'' they are often promoted on television as being free to Medicare recipients with arthritis, back pain or other ailments. Medicare, the Federal health insurance plan for the elderly and the disabled, reimburses recipients for most of the cost of medical equipment. The inspector general's report was prompted after the number of claims for the seat lift chairs increased from about 200,000 in 1984 to over 700,000 in 1985. The report attributes the increase to ''aggressive nationwide marketing,'' particularly television advertising. Medicare spent $185 million on 1.6 million claims for seat lift chairs from 1984 to 1987, according to the Health Care Financing Administration.
Such a chair costs $600 to $1,800. A spokesman for the Seat Lift Chairs Manufacturers Association said the chairs had obvious medical value. ''Seat lift chairs help anyone who has difficulty getting in and out of a chair without assistance,'' said Kenneth Berlin, a Washington lawyer who represents the association. ''They are prescribed by doctors to keep people out of nursing homes and off of pain-killing medication.'' Study Questions Chairs' Use The mechanized chairs are likened to La-Z-Boy recliners in the inspector general's draft report. Most chair owners interviewed for the report used the chairs primarily as home furniture. The report also said many doctors who authorized payment for the chairs were pressured by their patients and the companies that sell them. ''This is almost fraud, if not fraud, the way these people solicit our beneficiaries,'' said Dr. Robert D. Long, a Nebraska physician quoted in the report. ''The more money we spend on things like these, the less there is going to be for the really necessary, truly medical care services and equipment.''
The remarks were attributed to an unidentified doctor in the report; a department official provided his name in an interview. The draft report is being reviewed by the Health Care Financing Administration, which oversees Medicaid spending. After a final report in late February, the agency will decide whether to take action regarding the eligibility of seat lift chairs as an item qualifying for Medicare reimbursement. Most people who ordered seat lift chairs did so after seeing television commercials that say people covered by Medicare could receive the chairs for free by calling a toll-free telephone number, the report said. Many companies selling the chairs waived the 20 percent share of the bill Medicare recipients are obliged to pay for medical equipment. Medicare pays the remaining 80 percent. The report covered chair sales in 1984 and 1985. Those who respond to the advertisements are mailed a prescription for a doctor to sign, the report says. Sometimes companies did not wait for a doctor's authorization before delivering the chair.
Many doctors then felt compelled to authorize Medicare payment for the purchase, the report said, or their patients would have to pay the entire bill for chair. The report said that private insurance companies generally do not cover the cost of the seat lift chairs. The representative for the seat lift manufacturers said the report's conclusions were biased interpretations of a small sample. Over 200,000 doctors have prescribed seat lift chairs for their patients since 1984, Mr. Berlin said. ''Doctors fully support the medical need to keep someone out of a nursing home and I consider that a positive,'' said Mr. Berlin. ''The only reason they are going after seat lift chairs is because of what they call 'aggressive advertising techniques,' '' said Mr. Berlin. ''I don't see anything wrong with advertising a product if it makes people aware of something that may be of use to them,'' he said. ''I don't see what is wrong with people who see the product on TV going to their doctors and suggesting that they might benefit from its use.''