Laurie Watanabe is the Editor in Chief at Mobility Management. She specializes in health and wellness, healthcare technology, and patient care, with a keen focus on digital health and telehealth. Laurie’s insights and expertise are featured in notable publications such as HME Business and NewsBreak.
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Laurie Watanabe's coverage predominantly revolves around healthcare, mobility management, and assistive technology. She primarily features press releases and private sector announcements within these sectors.
Given the nature of her articles, Laurie is likely to be interested in news related to innovations in mobility management technologies, updates on wheelchair design or regulations, advancements in healthcare practices or policies relating to assistive technology.
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By: Laurie Watanabe
CGS Administrators, the Jurisdictions B and C DME MAC, has released a newly revised documentation checklist for manual wheelchair bases to explain what a supplier must provide for Medicare claims, including information on the beneficiary's home assessment as well as documentation that rules out provision of a cane or walker.
By: Laurie Watanabe
“The move allows seating teams to create a unified seating system from scan by using Bondar and Verro, Kalogon's E2609 custom cushion featuring the company's variable-density lattice,” the Melbourne, Florida-based seating manufacturer said in an Oct. 19 announcement. The 3D scan-based process was soft launched in June.
Resmed (NYSE: RMD) has launched the AirTouch F40, a full-face, fabric CPAP mask designed to be more comfortable for sleep apnea patients. The AirTouch F40 will be available in the United States starting on Oct. 28. The company noted in an Oct. 19 announcement that the AirTouch F40 incorporates Resmed’s ComfiSoft fabric in a “minimalist…
By: Laurie Watanabe
letter to the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) asking for an update on the effort to enable passengers to take their wheelchairs into airplane cabins and use them as seating during flights.
By: Laurie Watanabe
Todd Hargroder will tell you his inventions — from the transfer board he created that started his rehab engineering career to the paradigm-shifting Power-Flex power-drive attachment for lightweight manual wheelchairs — were born of his own observations, goals and needs as a longtime ultralightweight wheelchair rider.
By: Laurie Watanabe
As manual and power mobility possibilities converge, wheelchair riders, including those with complex seating needs, have more choices than ever. Check out a new generation of power mobility, how “hybrid” power is making the world more accessible, plus voting with a Complex Rehab Technology mindset.
By: Laurie Watanabe
Medline has updated its recommendations for continued use of its Medline-branded beds, rails, mattresses and accessories, including a new repair option. The new information follows the company’s Oct. 14 communication “regarding the product removal, market exit and discontinuation” of those Medline beds, rails, mattresses and accessories. That announcement said Medline “is executing a voluntary field…
By: Laurie Watanabe
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is reminding suppliers and practitioners how to correctly document and bill for parenteral nutrition. The Medicare Learning Network (MLN) Connects newsletter for Oct. 22 noted the improper payment rate for parenteral nutrition was 33% as reported in the 2024 Medicare Fee for Service Supplemental Improper Payment Data.…
By: Laurie Watanabe
Seven years after the U.S. Food & Drug Administration approved Zolgensma to treat children under 2 years old who'd been diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), Moshe Prero, M.D., presented “Updates in Pediatric Pulmonology: Year in Review” at the CHEST (American College of Chest Physicians) 2026 annual meeting in Phoenix this month.
By: Laurie Watanabe
What happens when the parallel worlds of manual and power wheelchairs begin converging? In Mobility Management's latest digital edition, read about travel power chairs that can offer greater accessibility for some clients with complex mobility needs. Then explore the new world of “hybrid” power mobility.
