Power Wheelchair Market Shares,
Market Strategies, and Market Forecasts, Worldwide, 2009-2015
Table of Contents
Power Wheelchair Executive Summary
Power Wheelchair Market Driving Forces ES-1
Wheelchair Market Trends
Power Wheelchair Market Shares
Power Wheelchair Market Forecasts
1. Power Wheelchair Market Dynamics and
Market Description
1.1 Power Wheelchair Mobile Platform
1.2 Benefits Of Home Care 1-2
1.2.1 Home Health Saves Medicare Billions
1.3 Demographic Trends Driving Home Care
1.4 Power Wheelchair vs. Manual Wheelchair
1.4.1 Medicare and Insurance for Wheelchairs
1.4.2 Health Care Cost Containment Trends
1.4.3 Home Health Care And Home Medical Equipment
1.4.4 Changing Home Health Care Market Distribution Channels
1.4.5 Mainstreaming Of People With Disabilities
1.4.6 Recovery And Active Lifestyles Of Disabled
Portion of the Population
1.5 Healthcare Equipment Industry
1.5.1 Reimbursement Drives Healthcare Equipment Industry
1.5.2 Prospective Payment System (PPS)
1.5.3 Market-Driven Reforms 1-16
1.5.4 Home Medical Equipment Industry Segments
1.6 Marketing Globally
1.6.1 U.S. Healthcare Delivery Industry
1.6.2 Competition Forms Basis Of U.S. Medical Care
Services Delivery
1.6.3 European Homecare Market Trends
1.7 Hospital and Home Care Services Billing Issues
1.7.1 Managed Care Requirements
1.8 Market Drivers For Healthcare Cost Containment
1.8.1 Managed Care Organization Impact
1.8.2 Reasons Home Health Care Has Gained Wide-Spread Acceptance
1.8.3 Managed Care Change In The Healthcare Industry
1.8.4 Homecare For People With Long Term Disabilities
1.8.5 Health Care Cost Containment Trends
1.8.6 Medicare
Reimbursement Guide for
Power Wheelchair Drive Control Systems
1.8.7 Controller Electronics
1.8.8 HCPCS Coding for Drive Control Systems
1.8.9 Coding Guideline (E2320 and E2321)
1.8.10 Coding Guideline (E2322)
1.8.11 Coding Guideline (E2323)
1.8.12 Coding Guideline (E2324)
1.8.13 Coding Guideline (E2325 and E2326)
1.8.14 Coding Guideline (E2327)
1.8.15 Coding Guideline (E2328)
1.8.16 Coding Guideline (E2329)
1.8.17 Coding Guideline (E2330)
1.8.18 Coding Guideline (E2331)
1.8.19 Medicare Reimbursements CMS Agency
1.8.20 Medicare Coverage
1.8.21 Determining Beneficiary Eligibility for MAE Coverage
1.8.22 Clinical Criteria for MAE Coverage
1.9 POV 1- Or 4-Wheeled Device With Tiller Steering
And Limited Seat Modification Capabilities
1.9.1 Power Wheelchairs / POVs Coverage Overview
1.9.2 Summary of Patient Costs
1.9.3 Medicare Has Seen An Increase In Utilization Of The Power Wheelchair Benefit
1.9.4 Fraud Uncovered
1.10 Wheel Chair Distribution Channels
2. Power Wheelchair Market Shares and Forecasts
2.1 Power Wheelchair Market Driving Forces
2.1.1 Wheelchair Market Trends
2.2 Power Wheelchair Market Shares
2.2.1 Invacare® G-trac For Power Wheel Chairs
2.2.2 Invacare Positioning 2-8
2.2.3 Sunrise Medical Positioning
2.2.4 Pride Mobility
2.2.5 Innovation In Motion X5-Frontier
2.3 Power Wheelchair Market Forecasts
2.3.1 Custom Power Wheelchair Markets
2.3.2 Standard Power Wheelchair Market Forecasts
2.4 Custom Power and Manual Wheelchair Seating
2.4.1 Seating And Positioning Product Forecasts
2.4.2 Wheelchair and Scooter Market Forecasts
2.5 Wheelchair Market Segments
2.5.1 Complex Power Wheelchairs
2.5.2 Standard Wheelchair Market Forecasts
2.5.3 Lifestyle Demands
2.5.4 Wheelchair Usage
2.5.5 Number of People in Wheelchairs
2.5.6 Race And Ethnicity
2.5.7 Socioeconomic Status 2-36
2.5.8 Employment And Activity Limitation
2.5.9 Conditions Causing Disability
2.5.10 Active Patients
2.5.11 Wheelchair Market Issues
2.5.12 Wheelchair Insurance Reimbursement
2.5.13 Transportation Significant Barrier To
Employment And Full Community Participation
2.5.14 Public Transportation 2-43
2.5.15 Medicare Wheelchair Spending
2.6 Power Wheelchair Prices
2.7 Wheelchair Regional Market Analysis
2.7.1 Invacare North America Market
2.7.2 Invacare Europe/Asia/Pacific Market
2.7.3 Invacare Europe
3. Power Wheelchair Product Description 3-1
3.1 Adult Power Wheelchairs
3.1.1 Invacare Manufactures The AT’m Portable Power Wheelchair
3.1.2 Invacare Power Wheelchairs
3.1.3 Invacare® G-trac™ Electronic Gyroscope Module
3.1.4 Invacare Power Team Streamlining Its Five
Rehab Powered Seating Platforms Down To One
3.1.5 Invacare TDX® SP (Total Driving eXperience)
Power Wheelchair
3.1.6 Invacare Nutron Series Power Wheelchairs/
3.1.7 Invacare P9000 XDT Power Wheelchairs
3.1.8 Invacare Pronto M51 Power Wheelchairs
3.2 Sunrise Medical Quickie® Rhapsody™ -
3.2.1 Sunrise Medical Seating and Positioning Performance
3.2.2 Sunrise Medical Quickie® Aspire –
3.2.3 Sunrise Medical Quickie® Pulse 6 –
3.2.4 Sunrise Medical Quickie® Xtender™ -
3.2.5 Sunrise Medical Quickie® Rhythm™ -
3.2.6 Sunrise Medical Quickie® Z-500™ -
3.2.7 Sunrise Medical Quickie P220 –
3.2.8 Sunrise Medical Quickie® P-222 SE –
3.3 Drive Medical Power Chairs
3.4 Pride Mobility Power Wheel Chairs
3.5 Hoveround
3.5.1 Hoveround MPV 5 Power Wheel Chair
3.5.2 Hoveround Teknique® FWD Electric Wheel Chair
3.5.3 Hoveround Teknique RWD Motorized Wheel Chair
3.5.4 Hoveround Teknique® GT Power Chair
3.5.5 Hoveround Bariatric Teknique® XHD Heavy Duty Wheelchair
3.5.6 Hoveround MPV 5 Power Wheel Chair
3.6 Convaquip Power WheelChairs
3.7 Gendron
3.8 Glide Rehabilitation Products
3.9 Graham Field
3.9.1 Graham Field Everest Metro Power™ III –
3.10 Gunnell
3.11 Innovation In Motion X8-Extreme
3.11.1 Innovation In Motion X5-Frontier
3.11.2 Innovation In Motion Jewel
3.12 Merits
3.13 Permobil
3.13.1 Permobil C350 CORPUS
3.13.2 Permobil C400 CORPUS
3.14 Drive Medical Power Wheelchairs Bases
3.15 Melrose Kiwi Concept Chairs
3.15.1 Melrose Kiwi Concept Chairs Cobra
3.16 Melrose Piranha
3.17 Gendron Regency XLC Prescription
3.18 Glide Power Assist -–
3.18.1 Glide Series 4 - Series 4 –
3.19 Graham Field / Everest and Jennings
3.19.1 Graham Field Metro Power™ III –
4. Power Wheelchair Technology
4.1 Power Wheelchair Battery Technological Trends
4.1.1 Power Wheelchair LiFePO4 Battery
4.1.2 Thin Film Lithium And Lithium Ion Batteries
4.1.3 Thin Film Battery Market Driving Forces
4.1.4 Thin Film Solid-State Battery Construction
4.1.5 Science And Medical Technology
4.1.6 Science And Medical Technology
4.1.7 Chiaphua Motors High-Performance
Motors And Components
4.2 Medicare Specifications For Wheelchairs
4.2.1 A Lightweight Wheelchair (K0003) Is
Covered When A Patient:
4.2.2 Reasons for Noncoverage
4.2.3 Documentation Requirements
4.2.4 Wheelchair Coding Guidelines
4.2.5 Reimbursement Policies
4.2.6 Government Regulation 4-26
4.2.7 European Reimbursement Changes
4.2.8 Competitive Bidding 4-30
4.2.9 Physical Therapy
4.2.10 Treatment Trends
4.3 Wheel Chair Technological Trends
4.3.1 Power Wheelchairs
4.3.2 Sport Wheelchairs
4.3.3 Lightweight Wheelchairs
4.3.4 Transport Wheelchairs (Folding)
5. Wheelchair Company Profiles
5.1 21st Century Scientific Inc
5.2 Amigo Mobility
5.3 Chiaphua Motors
5.4 Convaid
5.5 ConvaQuip –
5.6 Drive Medical –
5.7 Eagle Sportschairs
5.8 Gendron Inc –
5.9 Glide Rehabilitation 5-15
5.10 GF Health Products / Graham Field –
5.11 Graham-Field Quality Brands
5.11.1 GF Health Products in the USA
5.12 Gunnell
5.13 Handicare
5.14 Hoveround
5.14.1 Hoveround Positiioning 5-23
5.15 Invacare
5.15.1 Invacare Net sales
5.15.2 Invacare North America and Asia/Pacific
5.15.3 Invacare Europe
5.15.4 Invacare Business Segments
5.15.5 North America/Home Medical Equipment
5.15.6 Invacare Supply Group 5-30
5.15.7 Invacare Institutional Products Group
5.15.8 Invacare Europe
5.15.9 Invacare Asia/Pacific 5-31
5.15.10 Invacare Services Opportunity
5.15.11 Invacare Revenue Q2 2009 5-37
5.15.12 Invacare North American/Home
Medical Equipment (NA/HME)
5.15.13 Invacare North America and Asia/Pacific
5.15.14 Invacare® G-trac™ Electronic Gyroscope Module
5.15.15 Invacare Infrared Control Module
5.15.16 Invacare Rehab Powered Seating
5.15.17 Invacare® Top End® Crossfire™ T6A
Custom Manual Wheelchair
5.15.18 Invacare® Top End® Force™ Handcycle
5.15.19 Invacare Strategic Positioning
5.15.20 Invacare North America 5-44
5.15.21 Invacare Rehab Power Wheelchair
5.15.22 Invacare Rehab Custom Manual Wheelchairs
5.15.23 Invacare Rehab Personal Portable Power Wheelchair Mobility
5.15.24 Invacare Seating and Positioning Products
5.15.25 Invacare Standard Products
5.15.26 Invacare Manual Wheelchairs
5.15.27 Invacare Personal Care 5-47
5.15.28 Invacare Home Care Beds 5-47
5.15.29 Invacare Respiratory Products
5.15.30 Invacare Institutional Products Group
5.15.31 Invacare Asia/Pacific
5.15.32 Invacare Europe
5.15.33 Invacare North America and Asia/Pacific
5.15.34 Invacare iPartner Solutions sm
5.15.35 Invacare Europe
5.15.36 Invacare Customers
5.15.37 Invacare / Brightree Business Management Solution
5.16 LEVO AG
5.17 Magic Mobility
5.18 MED Group
5.19 Medline
5.19.1 Medline Guaranteed Savings/Cost Management Programs
5.19.2 Medline Excel Wheelchair
5.20 Melrose Kiwi Concept Chairs
5.20.1 Melrose Kiwi Pediatric Titanium Wheelchairs
5.21 Merits –
5.21.1 Merits Health Products OEM For Some Of The
Biggest Names In The DME business
5.22 Meyra
5.23 Product Design Group –
5.24 Otto Bock HealthCare GmbH
5.25 Permobil –
5.26 Piaggio
5.27 Pihsiang Machinery Manufacturing Company Limited
5.28 Pride Mobility –
5.28.1 Pride Mobility Products/Quantum Rehab And The Med Group
5.29 RGK –
5.30 Shoprider Mobility Products -
5.31 Soleus Mobility
5.32 Sunrise Medical –
5.32.1 Sunrise Medical Quickie® Q7™
5.33 Teftec Mobility –
5.34 The Scooter Store
5.35 Vestil Manufacturing Corporation / Innovation in Motion –
5.36 Yamaha Motor Corporation, U.S.A.
List of Tables and Figures
Table ES-1
Wheelchair Market Driving Forces
Table ES-2
Wheelchair Market Home Health Care Treatment Trends
Table ES-3
Power Wheelchair Market Shares, Dollars,
Worldwide, First Three Quarters 2009
Figure ES-4
Power Wheelchair Market Forecasts,
Worldwide, Dollars, 2009-2015
Table 1-1
Studies Illustrate Patients Choose Home Care
Table 1-2
Home Health Savings
Table 1-3
Power Wheelchairs vs Manual Wheelchairs 7
Table 1-4
Power Wheelchair Target Markets
Table 1-5
Power Wheelchair Target Market Positioning
Table 1-6
Power Wheelchair Market Positioning Functions
Table 1-7
Home Medical Equipment Market Segments 18
Table 1-9
Home Care Services Billing Issues
Table 1-10
Home Care Services Billing Changes Needed
Table 1-11
JCAHO ORYX Requirements
Table 1-11 (Continued)
JCAHO ORYX Requirements
Table 1-12
POV Is A 1- Or 4-Wheeled Device With Tiller
teering And Limited Seat Modification Capabilities
Table 1-13
Clinical Criteria for MAE Coverage
Table 1-14
Medicare Efforts To Control Power Wheelchair
Reimbursement Abuse
Table 1-14 (Continued)
Medicare Efforts To Control Power Wheelchair
Reimbursement Abuse
Table 2-1
Wheelchair Market Driving Forces
Table 2-2
Wheelchair Market Home Health Care Treatment Trends
Table 2-3
Wheelchair Market Aspects
Table 2-4
Power Wheelchair Market Shares, Dollars,
Worldwide, First Three Quarters 2009
Table 2-5
Custom Power Wheelchair Market Shares, Dollars,
Worldwide, First Three Quarters 2009
Table 2-6
Invacare Positioning
Figure 2-7
Power Wheelchair Market Forecasts, Worldwide,
Dollars, 2009-2015
Table 2-8
Custom and Standard Power Wheelchair Market
Forecasts, Worldwide, Units and Dollars, 2009-2015
Figure 2-9
Custom Power Wheelchair Market Forecasts, Worldwide, Dollars,
2009-2015
Figure 2-10
Custom Power Wheelchair Market Forecasts, Worldwide, Units,
2009-2015
Figure 2-11
Standard Power Wheelchair Market Forecasts,
Worldwide, Dollars,
2009-2015
Figure 2-12
Standard Power Wheelchair Market Forecasts, Worldwide, Units,
2009-2015
Figure 2-13
Custom Power and Manual Wheelchair Seating
Market Forecasts, Worldwide, Dollars, 2009-2015
Table 2-14
Custom Power and Manual Wheelchair Seating
Market Forecasts, Worldwide, Dollars, 2009-2015
Table 2-15
Manual Wheelchair Market Segments, Worldwide,
Dollars, First Three Quarters 2009
Table 2-16
Wheelchair Segments
Market Shares, Dollars, Worldwide, First Three Quarters 2009
Table 2-17
Standard and Transport Wheelchair Market Forecasts, 2009-2015
Table 2-18
Standard and Transport Wheelchair Market Forecasts, 2009-2015
Table 2-19
Wheelchair Market Issues
Table 2-20
Regional Wheelchair, Power Wheelchair, and Medical Scooter
Market Segments, Dollars, First Three Quarters 2009
Table 2-21
Regional Wheelchair, Power Wheelchair, and Medical Scooter
Market Segments, Dollars, First Three Quarters 2009
Figure 2-22
Invacare Regional Revenue Segments
Figure 3-1
Selected Power Wheelchairs
Figure 3-1 (Continued)
Selected Power Wheelchairs
Table 3-2
Invacare At'm Features
Table 3-3
Invacare® G-trac™ Electronic Gyroscope Module
Power Wheelchair
Figure 3-4
Invacare TDX Power Wheelchair Innovations
Table 3-5
Invacare Nutron Series Power Wheelchairs Features
Table 3-6
Invacare P9000 XDT Power Wheelchairs
Table 3-7
Invacare Pronto M51 Power Wheelchairs
Table 3-7 (Continued)
Invacare Pronto M51 Power Wheelchairs
Table 3-8
Selected Invacare Power Wheelchairs
Table 3-9
Sunrise Medical Quickie®Rhapsody Power Wheelchair Features
Table 3-10
Sunrise Power Wheelchair Functions
Table 3-10 (Continued)
Sunrise Power Wheelchair Functions
Figure 3-11
Sunrise Medical Quickie® P-220
Table 3-12
Drive Medical Cirrus Plus EC, Folding Power Chair -
Table 3-13
Pride Mobility Power Wheel Chairs
Table 3-14
Hoveround Power Wheel Chair Features & Benefits
Table 3-14 (Continued)
Hoveround Power Wheel Chair Features & Benefits
Table 3-15
Hoveround Electric Wheel Chair Features & Benefits
Table 3-16
Bariatric Wheelchair Benefits
Table 3-17
Hoveround Power Wheel Chair Features & Benefits
Table 3-18
Convaquip Power Model 650-H Power Chair –
Table 3-19
Gendron Regency XLC Prescription Features
Table 3-20
Glide Rehabilitation Power Wheelchair Products
Table 3-21
Graham Field Everest Power Wheelchair Features
Table 3-22
Graham Field Everest Metro Power™ III Features
Table 3-22 (Continued)
Graham Field Everest Metro Power™ III Features
Table 3-23
Innovation In Motion X8-Extreme Features
Table 3-24
Innovation In Motion X5-Frontier Power Wheel Chair Features
Table 3-25
Merits P101 Travel-Ease Commuter ( MP-1IN, MP-1IA )
Power Wheelchair
Table 3-26
Merits Power Wheelchairs
Table 3-27
Permobil C300 CORPUS
Figure 3-28
Permobil CORPUS Power Wheelchairs
Table 3-29
Drive Medical Cirrus Plus EC, Folding Power Chair - Features
Table 3-29 (Continued)
Drive Medical Cirrus Plus EC, Folding Power Chair - Features
Table 3-30
Drive Medical Cirrus Plus EC, Folding Power Chair -
Table 3-30 (Continued)
Drive Medical Cirrus Plus EC, Folding Power Chair -
Table 3-31
Drive Medical Geo (Portable) 4 Wheeled Powered
Wheelchair Base -
Table 3-31 (Continued)
Drive Medical Geo (Portable) 4 Wheeled Powered
Wheelchair Base -
Table 3-32
Drive Medical Image GT Mid Wheel Drive -
Table 3-32 (Continued)
Drive Medical Image GT Mid Wheel Drive -
Table 3-32 (Continued)
Drive Medical Image GT Mid Wheel Drive -
Table 3-33
Drive Medical Sunfire Plus Power Rear Wheel Drive
Wheelchair Base -
Table 3-33 (Continued)
Drive Medical Sunfire Plus Power Rear Wheel Drive
Wheelchair Base -
Table 3-34
Melrose Kiwi Concept Chairs Cobra Features
Table 3-35
Melrose Kiwi Concept Chairs Cobra Options And Accessories
Table 3-36
Melrose Piranha Standard Specifications
Table 3-36 (Continued)
Melrose Piranha Standard Specifications
Table 3-37
Gendron Regency XLC Prescription Features
Table 3-38
Gendron Regency XLC Customizable XLC:
Table 3-39
Glide Power Wheelchairs
Table 3-40
Graham Field / Everest Power wheelchair
Table 3-41
Graham Field Metro Power™ III Features
Table 3-41 (Continued)
Graham Field Metro Power™ III Features
Figure 4-1
Typical Structure Of A Thin Film Solid State Battery
Figure 4-2
Chiaphua Motors High-Performance Motors And Components
Table 4-3
Coverage For Any Item To Be Covered:
Table 4-3 (Continued)
Coverage For Any Item To Be Covered:
Table 4-3 (Continued)
Coverage For Any Item To Be Covered:
Table 4-4
Wheelchair Procedure Codes
Table 4-5
US Codes for Coverage of Wheelchairs K0003-K0007
Figure 4-6
Wheelchair Coding Guidelines
Figure 4-6 (Continued)
Wheelchair Coding Guidelines
Figure 4-6 (Continued)
Wheelchair Coding Guidelines
Table 4-7
Factors Relating To Value Of Home Health Care Over
Institutional Care
Table 4-8
Transport Wheelchair Features
Figure 5-1
21st Century Scientific Bounder Plus Power Wheelchairs
Figure 5-2
21st Century Scientific Power Wheelchairs
Figure 5-3
21st Century Scientific Bounder Plus Manual Wheelchairs
Figure 5-4
Amigo Healthcare Scooters
Figure 5-5
Amigo Commercial Shopper Scooters
Table 5-6
Amigo Mobility Scooter Functions
Table 5-7
Drive Medical Catalogs
Figure 5-8
Graham-Field-PMG Facility in Jacksonville, Florida
Figure 5-9
Handicare Power Wheelchairs
Figure 5-10
Handicare Outdoor / Indoor Power Wheelchairs
Figure 5-11
Invacare Positioning
Figure 5-12
Invacare Revenue by Segment
Figure 5-13
Invacare Services Opportunity
Table 5-14
Invacare Long Term Focus
Table 5-15
Invacare Positioning
Table 5-16
Invacare Rationalize Supply Chain
Table 5-17
Invacare Power Add On for Manual Wheelchairs
Table 5-18
Invacare Strategic Positioning
Figure 5-19
Levo Standing Wheelchair
Figure 5-20
Medline Excel Wheelchair
Figure 5-21
Medline Excel Transport Wheelchair
Figure 5-22
Melrose Kiwi Concept Pediatric Titanium Wheelchairs
Figure 5-23
Melrose Kiwi Concept Basketball Wheelchairs
Figure 5-24
Merits Manual Wheelchairs
Figure 5-24 (Continued)
Merits Manual Wheelchairs
Figure 5-25
Selected Meyra International Offices
Figure 5-26
Meyra Group Brands
Figure 5-27
Meyra Innovation for Wheelchairs
Figure 5-28
Otto Bock HealthCare Wheelchairs
Otto Bock HealthCare GmbH
Figure 5-29
Pihsiang Machinery Manufacturing Electric Scooters
Figure 5-30
Pihsiang Machinery Manufacturing Wheelchairs
Figure 5-31
Pride Mobility wheelchair brands
Table 5-32
Pride Power Base Platforms
Table 5-33
Teftec All Terrain Power Wheelchair Features