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Registration Deadline Set Next Week; Bidder Response Unknown
ATLANTA--HME providers in the initial 10 competitive bidding areas have only a week left to register for their user IDs and passwords--and the registrations will determine whether CMS gets the number of bidders it had expected...
Key Industry Bills Await Congressional Action
WASHINGTON--A handful of home medical equipment-related bills awaits action from Congress when legislators return from their August recess on Sept. 4, and that action--if there is any--could change the face of the industry...
Providers Must Head Off SCHIP Provisions, HME Lobbyists Say
ATLANTA--When Congress returns to Washington in September, the House and Senate will put together a conference committee to hammer out a compromise bill on the State Children's Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP...
Invacare Enters Portable Concentrator Market
ELYRIA, Ohio--While its HomeFill oxygen system has gained 12 percent of the transfilling sector, according to Invacare officials, the company plans to launch an alternative this fall with its first portable oxygen concentrator...
Pulse Oximetry Market to Grow 150 Percent by 2013
PALO ALTO, Calif.--The U.S. market for pulse oximetry is set to grow more than 150 percent over the next six years, with both hospitals and alternative markets like home care driving the expansion, according to a recent report...
NSC Introduces the PTAN
COLUMBIA, S.C.--In its latest newsletter, the National Supplier Clearinghouse introduced the Provider Transaction Access Number, an identifier that suppliers will use when contacting the NSC or the DME Medicare Administrative Contractors with general inquiries...
Check on Elderly in Heat Wave, Authorities Advise
ATLANTA--HomeCare's hometown really was Hotlanta last week, with temperatures topping 100 degrees and a heat index of 110 for four days running. The city opened up more than 30 "cooling centers" for seniors and others without access to air conditioning. ...
Applications Still Short of Accreditors' Expectations
ATLANTA--Despite CMS' extension of the accreditation deadline for HME providers wishing to participate in competitive bidding, accreditation organizations still are not seeing a surge of applicants, they told HomeCare last week. ...
CMS Delays NPI Registry until September
BALTIMORE--CMS announced last week that it will delay dissemination of data from the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System until Sept. 4. ...
Contractor Report Card Shows Good Marks
BALTIMORE--Results of a CMS satisfaction survey conducted earlier this year show that a majority of health care providers gave their Medicare contractors relatively good grades, although DME contractors received the lowest marks. ...
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