WHAT IS THE PMC?

The Power Mobility Coalition (PMC) is an association of suppliers and manufacturers who provide services and mobility equipment such as motorized wheelchairs and scooters, to beneficiaries nationwide. Formed in 2000, the PMC provides a voice for the power mobility community when addressing issues that restrict access to products and services to beneficiaries with limited and compromised mobility.

The PMC's goal is to work with members of Congress, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the Medicare Part B carriers, and the beneficiary community to ensure that all eligible beneficiaries receive the power mobility equipment they need to live fuller, more independent and active lives.

During its short tenure, the PMC has testified before Congress, hosted CMS listening sessions, submitted numerous comments to CMS that have impacted program memoranda, lobbied Congress successfully to limit CMS' extrapolation authority, and has become a recognized conduit between the industry, Congress and CMS.

Eric Sokol, Director
Power Mobility Coalition

As Director of the Power Mobility Coalition, Eric Sokol is an advocate for the power mobility community, representing manufacturers and suppliers that provide power mobility equipment and educational resources to severely disabled Americans.

Since joining the organization in 2003, Sokol has worked to bring together diverse audiences under the common cause of ensuring disabled, seriously ill and injured, and elderly Americans have adequate access to the medical equipment they need to live their lives independently as possible.

Prior to joining the PMC, Eric represented home health and hospice providers as Deputy Director of Government for the National Association for Home Care & Hospice (NAHC). In addition to advocating in front of Congress to advance NAHC’s legislative agenda, Sokol was also staff liaison for NAHC’s home medical equipment affiliate, the Home Medical Equipment Association of America.

Sokol is a cum laude graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and received his law degree from the American University in Washington, DC.