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In brief: Owens & Minor explores P&HS sale, Grassley challenges UHC, CCS details burnout
February 28, 2025HME News Staff
RICHMOND, Va.– Owens & Minor is looking to sell off its Products & Healthcare Services business, while it remains “bullish” on its Patient Direct business.
The company made the announcement today, as part of its fourth quarter and full-year 2024 earnings results.
“Our commitment to directing capital toward the higher growth and higher margin Patient Direct segment has been increasingly evident in recent years and is consistent with our strategy,” said...
Sen. Grassley presses UnitedHealth Group on billing practices
February 27, 2025HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and a former chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, has sent a letter to UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty demanding detailed information on the company’s Medicare billing practices.
Grassley’s letter cited reports of apparent fraud, waste and abuse at UnitedHealth Group, including efforts to diagnose enrollees with obscure revenue-generating diagnoses that were irrelevant or inaccurate....
Senators introduce bill to improve Medicare transparency
June 19, 2013HME News Staff
WASHINGTON - Sens. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., are reintroducing a bill to make Medicare claims and billing data more transparent, according to a press release. “The Medicare Data Access for Transparency and Accountability Act,” which Grassley originally introduced in 2011, includes two chief provisions. The first would require the secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to issue regulations to make Medicare claims available to the public. “Taxpayers have...
Sens. Baucus, Grassley urge CMS to use 'discretion' toward pharmacies
January 28, 2010Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A couple of marquee-name senators last week asked Medicare to cut some slack for pharmacies that have not gotten accredited.
In a Jan. 26 letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., and Ranking Member Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, urged "discretion" in enforcing the requirement.
"They were concerned that CMS was going to start acting in a draconian fashion and crack down on pharmacies that haven't gone through accreditation,"...
Senate bigwigs haven't forgotten Rx exemption
January 26, 2010Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
Sens. Max Baucus and Charles Grassley sent a letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius yesterday asking her to cut some slack for pharmacies that haven't been accredited yet. The deadline for pharmacies passed Jan. 1 and with all that's happening in Congress lately, including their Christmas recess and the recent upset in the Senate, the NCPA and other stakeholders have been slowed in their efforts to get the deadline extended.
If CMS starts revoking billing privileges, beneficiaries could...
Grassley points finger at Medicare
November 16, 2009Mike Moran
Hannibal Rising the movie The Associated Press published a second article over the weekend about Medicare fraud.
It turns out that, for the most part, CMS turned a blind eye when, over a period of three years, it received more than 30 warnings from inspectors of fraud infiltrating the Medicare program. The AP was fed the story by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa.
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New report on Medicare fraud
November 16, 2009Mike Moran
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A new report shows that, in 2008, Medicare paid more than $17 billion in improper payments for its fee-for-service program, according to an article download Mildred Pierce How to Have an Accident in the Home divx published by The Associated Press over the weekend. When you combine fee-for-service and managed care, that figure rises to $47 billion. That is three times the number of improper payments than the previous year, the AP reported.
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The AARP strikes again
November 12, 2009Liz Beaulieu, Editor
A few blogs back, I wrote about the AARP's support of national competitive bidding. In an editorial in its November bulletin, the AARP delivers another blow to the HME industry, this time specifically to power wheelchairs.
"The Case of the Expensive Wheelchair" reads like a greatest hits of the criticism hurled at the power wheelchair industry in the past year:
Utilization: In 1997, Medicare and Medicare beneficiaries paid just over $100 million to buy or lease power wheelchairs; today...
Community pharmacies inch closer to accreditation extension
October 6, 2009Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
The Senate joined the House yesterday when it voted to give community pharmacies until Dec. 31 to get accredited
“The Senate acted wisely to ensure seniors can continue purchasing essential
medical supplies from their community pharmacies,” said Bruce T. Roberts,
NCPA executive vice president and CEO in a release. “Senators Max Baucus, Charles
Grassley and Jon Tester, in particular, deserve recognition for shepherding
the bill through. Without it, thousands of independent...
Grassley's at it again
October 5, 2009Liz Beaulieu, Editor
In a press release posted to IowaPolitics.com today, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, uses power wheelchair fraud as an example of why Medicare's a "money pit."
Aging Americans rely on Medicare to help pay for quality health care services and equipment that enhance their quality of life well beyond retirement. Unfortunately, a few rotten bananas in the durable medical equipment industry are giving a black-eye to those who conscientiously provide oxygen equipment, diabetic kits and wheelchairs...