AAHomecare Asks for Answers on Oxygen Cap

WASHINGTON--Last week, the American Association for Homecare asked CMS to address providers’ concerns about the 36-month oxygen rental cap, which is scheduled to take effect in less than five months on Jan. 1...

Breathing Room

By Rebecca Grilliot

Any way you look at it, home oxygen providers are finding it more difficult to breathe under current market conditions. As Medicare continues to slash...

Disaster Watchdog Questions Implications of Competitive Bidding

MIAMI--Complaints concerning the problems with competitive bidding have been ringing from the rafters recently, but a release from national disaster watchdog the Disaster Accountability Project last week is questioning the program's outcomes from a different perspective--that of disaster preparedness. ...

New Standards 27, 31 and 57: What the Changes Could Mean for You

By all accounts, the effects of CMS' proposed revision and expansion of supplier standards for DMEPOS will be far-reaching....

Senators Push to Prevent Oxygen Cuts

WASHINGTON--With a "Dear Colleague" letter sent last week, Sens. Blanche Lincoln, D-Ark., and Pat Roberts, R-Kan., urged the Senate Budget Committee to reject the cuts to home oxygen proposed in President Bush's 2009 budget. ...