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THE SUSTAINABLE ALTERNATIVE TO MEDICARE'S BIDDING PROGRAM.
December 6, 2017
Categories: Market Pricing Program
UPDATE: Thank you to Congressmen Thompson and Braley and the 81 members of Congress who cosigned the letter asking CMS Administrator Tavenner to stop the expansion of the Medicare bidding program. The letter received tremendous Congressional support and sent a strong message to Administrator Tavenner. Both providers and patients need to speak up and tell their Representatives in Congress that they need to ACT NOW to start repairing the damage that Medicare's badly...
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CONGRESS MUST STOP DRASTIC CUTS TO DME ITEMS IN RURAL & NON-BID AREAS
December 6, 2017
Categories: Competitive Bidding
Background 110 of the largest, most densely populated MSAs in the country currently participate as Competitively Bid Areas (CBAs) in the Competitive Bidding Program (CBP) for DMEPOS (Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Supplies). These CBAs are home to 58% of all Medicare beneficiaries in the nation. Under the CBP, durable medical equipment (DME) suppliers, often called home medical equipment (HME) suppliers, compete for a limited number of contracts to serve Medicare beneficiaries...
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Registration is Now Open for the Washington Legislative Conference 2017
March 27, 2017
Categories: Press Releases
HELP US BUILD THE FUTURE OF HME MON, MARCH 27, 2017 WASHINGTON, DC Each year the HME community comes together in Washington, D.C. to advocate and strengthen relationships in Congress. It is a critical gathering, made stronger by greater numbers of participants demonstrating how important our relatively small share of the Medicare budget is to the entire healthcare continuum. While we made progress in 2016 convincing more members of Congress that current Medicare rates for DME aren’t...
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Congressman Tom Price Appointed to Lead Department of Health and Human Services
November 29, 2016
Categories: Press Releases
President-elect Donald Trump announced today that he will appoint Congressman Tom Price (R-Ga.) to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services in his Administration. Price, who has represented Georgia’s 6th Congressional District since 2004, has been a consistent advocate for better public policy in the healthcare arena and has championed legislation to make sure that patients who rely on home medical equipment have access to those products and related services. “With a background...
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Tom Ryan Makes the Case for Competitive Bidding Reform on C-SPAN and SIRIUS/XM
September 8, 2016
Categories: Blog
In a continuing effort to educate Congress and share the struggle of HME providers in the current Medicare environment, Tom Ryan was interviewed on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal show on Labor Day Monday (Sept. 5). “It’s patient preferred, it’s economically the best situation, and at the end of the day you will get a better outcome,” explained Ryan highlighting the service component of home medical equipment and the benefits of homecare. Ryan also discussed the need...
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New OIG Report Raises More Questions About Competitive Bidding
May 31, 2016
Categories: Blog
The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of Health & Human Services released a report that raises more concerns about the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) ill-conceived competitive bidding program for home medical equipment. Looking at contract suppliers in Round 2 of the bidding program identified in complaints from the supplier community and congressional inquiries, the OIG focused on 146 unique contract suppliers that may not have...
