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Life After the Final Rule: What Happens Now?
Years of conjecture and mounting anxiety about the final rule for national competitive bidding ended last week when the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services unveiled the document--only to lead to new industry concerns...
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AAHomecare Issues 'Call to Arms'
On Tuesday, the day after CMS issued its final rule on competitive bidding for Medicare DMEPOS business, the American Association for Homecare put out an appeal to the industry in general to "stand up for home care" and join its ranks...
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CMS Announces Contingency Plan for NPI Compliance
On Monday, CMS announced that health care providers that can't meet the pending May 23 deadline to become compliant with National Provider Identifier provisions will have another year to do so...
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Phantom Posting Shows 10 Competitive Bidding MSAs
An apparent list of the 10 metropolitan statistical areas where DMEPOS competitive bidding will begin was posted on CMS' new Competitive Bidding Implementation Contractor Web site Friday morning. The posting was brief, however, and the list of bidding areas remains unconfirmed at this time.
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HME Gets Another Chance with 'Tanner-Hobson' Bill
In a move championed by industry advocates, on Thursday, U.S. Rep. John Tanner, D-Tenn., introduced a bill designed to "assure access to durable medical equipment under the Medicare program." ...
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eBay to Cease Oxygen Device Sales
In what stakeholders call a victory for the entire respiratory industry and the patients it serves, AirSep Corp. executives said that giant Internet marketer eBay will cease selling prescription oxygen devices...
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Popovich Relinquishes Joint Commission Reins
Maryanne Popovich, long-time executive director of home care accreditation for The Joint Commission, retired Friday, ironically just as the HME industry is on the cusp of mandatory accreditation...
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CMS Launches Competitive Bidding Web Site
In anticipation of the final rule regarding national competitive bidding, CMS introduced its DMEPOS Competitive Bidding Implementation Contractor Web site last week...
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Another Revision to PMD Fee Schedule
In the latest of a series of revisions to its power mobility device fee schedule, last week CMS issued additional changes as part of its April 2007 quarterly update...
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Providers Look to Build Sales in HME Retail
In larger numbers than ever reported, home medical equipment providers participating in HomeCare's 2007 Retail Survey said they intend to increase their retail sales this year....
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CMS on NCB Rule: 'Just Be Patient a Little Longer'
In an Open Door Forum on Wednesday, CMS officials said once again that the final rule on DMEPOS national competitive bidding is on the way. But when it is issued, providers still will not get all the information they've been waiting on for months...
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Providers Bring Up Warranty Issue
A comment on equipment warranties made during a CMS Open Door Forum last week prompted two top manufacturers to clarify their positions, with one reiterating the call to defeat President ...
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FBI Recoups $2 Billion in Health Care Fraud Money
The Federal Bureau of Investigation recovered more than $2 billion in fraudulent health care monies for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2006, according to its annual report, released last week. ...
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AAHomecare: Zero Tolerance for Fraud and Abuse
On Thursday, members of the House Ways and Means Health and Oversight subcommittee convened a Medicare program integrity hearing to ask law enforcement officials what tools they needed to ramp up the fight against fraud and abuse in the system...
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Florida Attorney Pleads Guilty in DME Company Sales Scam
A well-known Florida attorney who specialized in sales of durable medical equipment companies pleaded guilty on Thursday to Medicare fraud conspiracy and now faces a sentence of up to 10 years in prison, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Florida...
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