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An Open Letter to the Home Oxygen Community
From Tyler Wilson, President
American Association for Homecare
September 14, 2009
The American Association for Homecare has worked for many months on
the proposal to reform the Medicare home oxygen benefit. The
reform proposal is the basis for the legislation now being
spearheaded in the House of Representatives by Congressman Mike
Ross.
Oxygen providers, the broader community of stakeholders, including
physicians, clinicians and patient groups, CMS, and Congress
itself, have all expressed concerns about the current Medicare
oxygen benefit. Taking a lead on reforming the benefit is the
best way for the oxygen community to show ourselves as being
responsive to these various concerns. We have stepped up and
framed the legislative solution and, importantly, created the
opportunity for some long-needed stability for oxygen policy coming
out of Medicare.
Among the guiding principles that AAHomecare has relied upon in
working to craft an oxygen reform proposal:
