Tag: Budget

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - The state's Medicaid program made the following offer to HME providers in June: Come up with a way to slash $4.8 million from your budget and we won't reduce reimbursement to 80% of the Medicare allowable. Providers knew a deal when they saw one. They proceeded to propose cutting reimbursement for stationary oxygen concentrators to $90 per month and increasing reimbursement for portable oxygen concentrators to $150 per month, a move that would cut about $2.5 million from its...