AAHomecare urges Medicaid to ensure access
By HME News Staff
Updated Wed May 6, 2020
WASHINGTON - AAHomecare is asking CMS to ensure state Medicaid program do not engage in cost-cutting measures that will access patient access to DME.
In a letter sent to the Deputy Administrator for Medicaid & CHIP Services, the association urges the agency to make sure that the financial pressures and health risks experienced by HME providers in ensuring patients have adequate access to medical services and items during the COVID-19 pandemic are taken into account in assessing any proposed rate cuts. AAHomecare also encourages the agency to issue a letter to state Medicaid directors affirming the continued applicability of medical access monitoring review plan requirements during the COVID-19 emergency.
Oklahoma Medicaid is planning to implement rate cuts July 1; Medi-Cal in California has recently implemented rate cuts and is looking to recoup money to new rates back to Jan. 1, 2019.
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