Can SGD Vendors Re-Possess SGDs if Third Party Funding Sources Refuse to Pay?
SLPs have raised 2 related questions: Is a client is ever at risk of being asked to return an SGD if expected third party funding sources do not pay? And, what is the appropriate advice an SLP can give a client or a supplier if either asks about device return or repossession. These questions arise infrequently, but they are serious, emotion-laden issues. These questions arise at all because almost all SGDs are purchased with money provided by third party benefits programs, such as Medicare, Medicaid, insurance or Tricare. These questions arise infrequently because in the vast majority of cases, these funding sources have clearly identifiable obligations and they honor those obligations. Device delivery to the client and payment to the supplier both flow as expected. But exceptions do occur. There are times when device delivery proceeds, but funding does not follow. It is in this circumstance these questions are raised. If device return or repossession ever is raised by a supplier, both
