AAH receives additional BOC accreditation guidance from CMS
By HME News Staff
Updated 10:43 AM CST, Mon December 22, 2025
WASHINGTON – Home medical equipment (HME) providers may work with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to extend their current accreditation until their transition to a new accreditation organization (AO) has been finalized, AAHomecare reports in a new bulletin.
The extension applies to HME providers who are changing AOs as a result of CMS’s decision to withdraw its approval of the Board of Certification/Accreditation (BOC).
AAHomecare says impacted providers should contact CMS at the following email address to initiate the process: DMEAccreditation@cms.hhs.gov.
“Suppliers that are currently in, or were recently in, the process of reaccreditation with BOC should begin engaging with a new CMS-approved AO as soon as possible,” the association states.
CMS has also published a Q&A document with guidance for impacted providers.
BOC has filed a lawsuit against Robert F. Kennedy, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), for abruptly withdrawing its approval as an accreditation organization for HME providers effective Dec. 2. The company says that, since Dec. 2, its focus has been on DMEPOS customers most immediately impacted by the change: new and reaccrediting facilities in the process of completing the final requirements to confirm compliance and receive accreditation.
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