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Panel urges coverage for activity‑specific orthoses; sponsors challenge a state cost study
Summary
Supporters of House Bill 383, the "So Everybody Can Move" follow‑up, told the committee that Medicaid and insurers should cover custom activity‑specific orthoses used for sports and exercise as medically necessary; legislators and clinicians disputed a Department of Health cost study and asked for recalculation and more detailed utilization data.
Delegate Ashanti Martinez returned to the committee to present House Bill 383, the second part of last year’s So Everybody Can Move package. The measure would require Maryland Medical Assistance and private insurers to cover orthoses (custom braces and related components) used specifically for physical activity when medically necessary.
Patients, clinicians and advocates testified in favor. Prosthetists and orthotists, a podiatrist, a physical therapist and several individuals with limb…
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