Tag: Hospital-affiliated HME providers
Round 5: Independent vs. hospital-affiliated HME providers
October 25, 2010Liz Beaulieu, Editor
I had no idea of the lightning that would strike when we wrote a story about the increased competition between independent and hospital-affiliated HME providers (HME News, October 2010).
The lay of the land
Following that story, we wrote about a bill introduced by Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., that would allow hospital-affiliated HME providers in competitive bidding areas to continue providing products and services to their patients at the winning bid amounts regardless of whether or not they won contracts...