AT funding quiz

What does DME stand for?

• Disability medical equipment

• Durable medical equipment

• Disability mandatory equipment

• Durable mandatory equipoment

True/False: As long as you can justify that it is medically necessary, DME will be covered by private insurance.

• True

• False

Which of the following is TRUE about Medicare funding?

• Medicare is only available for people ages 62 or older.

• Medicare will fund eyeglasses or contact lenses if they are medically necessary.

• Items need to be medically necessary to be used at home.

• There are no co-pays required for Medicare.

True/False: MMT is an example of a standardized method for AT assessment

• True

• False

Which of the following is NOT one of the funding sources listed in the funding article by Schmeler 1997

• Crowdfunding

• private insurance

• vocational rehabilitation

• Public school

Which piece of legislation covers Assistive Technology in the public school?

• ADA

• IDEA

• ATA

• IDEAT

True/False: Consideration of AT occurs only during the first/initial IEP meeting, after that you need the child has to go through formal testing to qualify for AT.

• True

• False

True/False: Only standardized assessments are accepted for letters of medical necessity for private insurance to cover AT.

• True

• False