Hoveround Corporation
Hoveround Corporation — Power wheelchair manufacturer & Medicare DME supplier — Sarasota, Florida · hoveround.com.
What it sells
Hoveround (founded 1992, Sarasota, FL) designs, manufactures, delivers and services its own power wheelchairs, and sells scooters, lifts and vehicle lifts, primarily direct-to-consumer, handling Medicare/insurance paperwork for buyers. Its documented federal footprint is Medicare durable medical equipment: almost $50 million in Medicare Part B power-mobility reimbursement in 2010 — the second-largest federal PMD reimbursement that year (HHS OIG). No source found in this build’s research shows Hoveround as a VA prosthetics supplier; its profile here rests on the Medicare record and on labeled family testimony.
The contract and the money
Medicare DME supplier (Part B power mobility devices). No VA contract documented in this build’s research.
- Almost $50 million (Medicare PMD reimbursement, 2010) — The second-largest federal reimbursement for power mobility devices supplied to Medicare beneficiaries that year. (HHS OIG Audit A-05-12-00057)
On the record
What the government’s own watchdogs and prosecutors have published about this company, newest first. The summaries are ours; the findings are theirs.
- Hoveround Corporation Claimed Millions in Federal Reimbursement for Power Mobility Devices That Did Not Meet Medicare Requirements (HHS OIG, A-05-12-00057) (2015-12-03) — The HHS Inspector General found that for 154 of 200 sampled beneficiaries, Hoveround’s power-mobility claims did not comply with Medicare requirements — for 144, medical necessity was not supported. The OIG estimated Medicare paid $27,027,579 in 2010 for devices that did not meet Medicare requirements and recommended Hoveround refund that amount and strengthen its controls. Hoveround disagreed with the findings and methodology in its audit comments — printed here because the record includes its answer.
In this family’s case
FAMILY TESTIMONY (Tom Bowman Jr.’s account, labeled as testimony — the VA-side paper is not in the family’s hand): the power chair was APPROVED — with a vehicle lift and hitch approved with it — after a process that began with a flyer handed to the family at the Orlando VA (Lake Nona) and an evaluation appointment that finally came in April 2026. Nothing was ever delivered or installed. And the approval correspondence was addressed to Julieanne Bowman — Dad’s wife, dead since August 27, 2019 — because the VA still carried her as the contact of record. One verification the family CAN make from its own records: the word ‘Hoveround’ appears ZERO times in the 2,611-page VA Blue Button chart in hand. A 100% service-connected veteran who cannot walk ten feet: approved on paper, addressed to his dead wife, and the chair never came.
If this company is in your chain
- Tell Your Story — this site publishes documented family records. If this company is in your veteran’s chain, your documents belong on the record next to ours.
- VA OIG Hotline: 800-488-8244 — report suspected wrongdoing, inadequate patient care, or mismanagement straight to the Inspector General.
Middlemen data checked 2026-10-25 against the sources cited on this page. If a figure or a fact here is wrong, tell us — corrections are the point of this site.