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Letter to CMS: Drop vents from bid program

by: 
HME News Staff
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05/21/2019
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General News

WASHINGTON – Reps. Morgan Griffith, R-Va., and Peter Welch, D-Vt., are leading a congressional sign-on letter asking CMS and HHS to drop non-invasive vents from Round 2021 of competitive bidding.

Competitive bidding: Stakeholders line up another campaign for relief

by: 
Theresa Flaherty
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05/17/2019
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General News

WASHINGTON – The industry has its marching orders this week, as it heads to Capitol Hill with a long-awaited bill to address Medicare reimbursement cuts for HME.

Not all MCOs are hot on Medicaid

Smaller and nonprofit organizations exit, consolidating market
 by: 
Liz Beaulieu
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05/17/2019
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General News

YARMOUTH, Maine – The upward trajectory of MCOs managing state Medicaid programs has hit a kink.

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Supreme Medical catches up

by: 
Liz Beaulieu
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05/17/2019
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Vendors

MOBILE, Ala. – Supreme Medical went live with a new enterprise resource planning (ERP) system on May 1, putting the wholesale distributor on a more level playing field with its larger competitors, says Colton Mason.

ATP backlog: UPitt puts up money

by: 
Liz Beaulieu
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05/17/2019
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Mobility

PITTSBURGH – The University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Rehabilitation Science & Technology has stepped up efforts to increase the number of ATPs.

In brief: CMS details capacity, UHC admits error, VGM opens invite

by: 
HME News Staff
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05/17/2019
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General News

WASHINGTON – CMS will use a bidder’s estimated capacity—or their historic capacity plus their projected increase in capacity—along with their bid amount, to rank bids, reports the coalition behind www.dmecbpeducation.com.

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MCOs in West Virginia and Iowa recently announced that they would be exiting the Medicaid managed care programs in those states.