A Commentary on the Medicare Low Vision Rehabilitation Demonstration Project (Speaker's Corner) (United States. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Public Hospital Disabled Services for Visual Impaired Persons‪)‬

Despite the best efforts of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) with regard to the field of visual impairment and blindness, and despite the concerted efforts of the members of the field to make the most of the Medicare Low Vision Rehabilitation Demonstration Project, there are intrinsic flaws in scope and design of the project that preclude its successful implementation and may even undermine the services that have been extended by Medicare to beneficiaries with visual impairments in the last decade. To set the stage and provide a context for this argument, we begin with some background information and a review of events leading up to the April 1, 2006 initiation of the five-year demonstration project. ORGANIZATION OF MEDICARE