Latest HME Audit Key report shows increase audit activity; AAHomecare urges providers to share their data.
- By David Kopf
- Sep 22, 2016
HME advocates work to communicate need for bidding reform on both Capitol Hill, as well as with various news outlets.
- By David Kopf
- Sep 22, 2016
Association is collecting accounts from discharge planners, case managers, social workers on patients’ difficulties getting DME.
- By David Kopf
- Sep 22, 2016
University of California Health System urges CMS to re-evaluate program’s impact, claiming it has seen significant problems obtaining DME.
- By David Kopf
- Sep 15, 2016
Call focused at news media included various HME providers who detailed impact of bid expansion’s impact on their businesses.
- By David Kopf
- Sep 15, 2016
VGM Government Relations calls on hospitals to help protect patient access to DME as September legislative efforts intensify.
- By David Kopf
- Sep 08, 2016
DMEPOS providers must use revised enrollment application starting Jan. 1, 2017; fee schedule changes impact 66 codes.
- By David Kopf
- Sep 08, 2016
Association president and CEO makes case for reforming competitive bidding, follows up with SIRIUS/XM appearance.
- By David Kopf
- Sep 08, 2016
As HME advocates work to reform competitive bidding expansion, AAHomecare urges providers to assist those efforts
- By David Kopf
- Sep 08, 2016
As it releases Round One 2017 SPAs and sends out contract offers, agency claims the program is maintaining access and care quality, while saving significant sums.
- By David Kopf
- Sep 08, 2016
Providers serving TRICARE patients are now feeling the effect of CMS’s July 1 implementation of the full bid expansion cuts; patient access hangs in the balance.
- By David Kopf
- Sep 01, 2016
News media covering providers’ stories regarding impact of national bid expansion, raising issue’s profile on Capitol Hill.
- By David Kopf
- Sep 01, 2016
Business Solutions
The fight to protect complex rehab therapy accessories and to create a separate benefit continues. After getting a one-year delay to CMS's application of bidding prices to complex rehab accessories, the industry works to not only advance a permanent fix to that, but to finally establish complex rehab as a separate benefit under the DMEPOS program.
- By David Kopf
- Sep 01, 2016
Rep. Zeldin (R-NY), other speakers tout H.R.3229 at press conference held at The Children's Center at United Cerebral Palsy of Long Island.
- By David Kopf
- Sep 01, 2016
With a small legislative window opening next month, Association urges HME professionals to contact their lawmakers to make strong case for rural/non-bid relief.
- By David Kopf
- Aug 25, 2016
Rose Schafhauser will replace longtime executive director of Wisconsin association.
- By David Kopf
- Aug 17, 2016
Additional HME businesses share impact of cuts with AAHomecare as advocates work to reverse bid expansion to rural, non-bid areas.
- By David Kopf
- Aug 11, 2016
Proof of medical necessity no longer required on all instances of replacement of CPAP or RAD accessories.
- By David Kopf
- Aug 11, 2016
Providers urged to participate in the DME Cost Study and 2Q Audit Key survey to bolster industry’s case for bidding, audit reforms.
- By David Kopf
- Aug 04, 2016
As the July 1 cuts take hold, HME providers convey the impact that cuts are having on their patients and their ability to stay in business.
- By David Kopf
- Aug 04, 2016