This document is a compilation of years of reviewing real-world justifications and supporting funding submissions and appeals. It is designed to serve as a practical guide for developing strong, effective justification language for a LUCI submission. Pages 1-4 focus on general LMN best practices and on justifying a Group 3 power wheelchair, as this base type is required for LUCI. Pages 5-10 provide quality descriptions of the LUCI technology – answering “What is LUCI?” and “How does LUCI work?” – and outline best practices for tailoring the justification to demonstrate how LUCI supports your client’s function, independence, and safety.
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As an internationally recognized, well-regarded evaluation of an individual’s skills navigating in a PWC, the LUCI team has taken a subset of the WST and WST-Q skills that are relevant to the LUCI system to demonstrate how a PWC driver’s score may improve by simply introducing the addition of the LUCI smart sensor system.
The purpose of the Power-Mobility Indoor Driving Assessment (PIDA) is to assess the indoor mobility of persons who use power wheelchairs (PWCs), originally for individuals residing in an institutional setting, such as a long-term care facility. Conducting this test as part of a LUCI evaluation provides payer groups with objective, measurable differences that the LUCI system can make in a PWC driver’s life.
Easily put to rest any claims that LUCI is experimental by including LUCI’s FDA registration. As an FDA Class 1, exempt medical device, LUCI meets all associated requirements of the FDA and FCC. In addition, LUCI meets the applicable requirements of IEC 60601 for home use medical electrical equipment.
As LUCI begins to win over Canadian payors, we are eager to provide the funding and justification guidance to help your client’s get to a yes!.