Statement on the confirmation of HHS Secretary from Tom Ryan, president and CEO of the American Association for Homecare:   "AAHomecare and the home medical equipment (HME) community are gratified to see Alex Azar confirmed as Secretary of the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS). His previous high-level experience at HHS and background as an effective and accomplished health care executive makes him uniquely qualified to help resolve significant challenges facing our nation’s...

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Excluding DMEPOS from Proposed Tariffs Background In March 2018, a report of the Trump Administration’s investigation on China concluded that China used several tactics to force technology transfers from US firms and conducted cyberattacks to gain valuable business information and trade secrets.  Section 301 gives the President and the US Trade Representative (USTR) broad authority to act against countries whose actions, policies, or practices unreasonably burden or restrict US commerce....

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In one of the biggest regulatory wins of the last decade, CMS has announced that RAC reviews of DME items provided while a beneficiary was in a Part A stay -- including hospitals and nursing homes -- are limited to DME claims paid on or after April 1. While DME and related supplies are covered for the entire 30 days of such stays, the automatic RAC audits were going back several years to review these types of claims. But those DME suppliers weren’t able to re-file those claims due to the...

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