General News

ANNAPOLIS, Md. – If you’re an HME provider in Maryland, the new payment amounts for Round 2 of competitive bidding are merely one piece of bad news you’re dealing with right now.

BALTIMORE – CMS will kick off phase 2 of the Provider Enrollment, Chain, and Ownership System (PECOS) on May 1, it announced March. 1.

MINNEAPOLIS – A federal judge may have granted the government’s request to dismiss a competitive bidding-related lawsuit filed against CMS by a specialty HME provider, but that doesn’t mean he thinks justice was served.

LANSING, Mich. – A new report has found that computer system errors led Michigan’s Department of Community Health to make millions of dollars in Medicaid overpayments, and now HME providers are wondering how the state's recoupment efforts will affect them.