Senate Appropriations Committee urges e-prescribing for oxygen
By HME News Staff
Updated 9:14 AM CDT, Thu August 7, 2025
WASHINGTON – The Senate Appropriations Committee has released a report that includes guidance to CMS to advance the use of e-prescribing for supplemental oxygen. The guidance, which accompanies FY 2025 appropriations legislation for the Department of Health and Human Services, is included on page 206 of the report:
Supplemental Oxygen — The Committee notes that in 2018, CMS developed a set of clinical data elements to identify the data necessary to support medical necessity of supplemental oxygen claims and allow for electronic prescribing of supplemental oxygen. CMS has not approved of the use of this electronic template, and the clinical data elements template and electronic prescribing has yet to be implemented. Within 60 days of enactment of this act, the Committee directs CMS to provide a briefing on updates to the ePrescribing of supplemental oxygen, including a process and timeline for provider adoption. The briefing should also include information on CMS’s efforts to work with community stakeholders to improve access to supplemental oxygen.
AAHomecare states this language is not reflected in the initial appropriations bill draft (and does not have the force of law), but it does send a message to CMS that the Appropriations Committee would like to see the agency implement it. See the full report here.
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