Various HME products, including: The Hubscrub Co.'s Model 20/70; EZ-ACCESS' TRIFOLD Advantage Series Ramp; Encore Path's Tailwind; Tru-Motion Dynamics' Sure-Step Walking Cane; and more.
In the first glimmer of hope for mobility providers in a long while, a bill to delay elimination of the first-month purchase option for power wheelchairs could come through as early as this week.
While providers now have ready access to spreadsheet-type data files that list both physicians who are PECOS-registered and those whose registration is pending, the system is clearly still a work in progress.
In announcing its second quarter financial results, Lincare Holdings said it had accepted two oxygen contracts in Round 1 of competitive bidding in Miami and Charlotte. The company bid in all nine MSAs.
CMS has released a competitive bidding fact sheet for referral agents advising that when the program begins in January 2011, beneficiaries located in the nine CBAs must obtain bid items from a contract supplier.
In a recent widespread probe review of post-payment claims for CPAP devices, the Jurisdiction C DME MAC said the review "showed that suppliers are not following published Medicare guidelines and policies