PLATINUM LEVEL SPONSORSHIP OF AAHOMECARE IS AN INVESTMENT THAT BENEFITS SUPPLIERS NATIONWIDE TUE, JUNE 13, 2017 WASHINGTON, DC Drive DeVilbiss Healthcare is taking on an expanded leadership role in the home medical equipment (HME) sector by becoming the only HME manufacturer supporting the American Association for Homecare (AAHomecare) as a Platinum-level partner, the highest sponsorship category for the Association. “We’re proud that we can increase our support for AAHomecare’s...

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Just a day away from the July 1 cuts, AAHomecare is receiving information from from suppliers across the country who are faced with tough business decisions that will hurt patients. Sandwich, Massachusetts As a result of Medicare's application of competitive bidding-derived prices in rural markets, Cape Medical Supply, Inc. in Sandwich, Mass. announced they will no longer accept new patients on Nantucket Island.  As the only respiratory care provider for this market, Gary Sheehan,...

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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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