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'Are these rates sustainable?'

February 1, 2013Liz Beaulieu, Editor

YARMOUTH, Maine - HME providers spent the long days and nights following CMS's announcement of the Round 2 payment amounts trying to crunch numbers and strategize their next moves. Many of them did this in a daze, trying to comprehend how the payment amounts came out, on average, 45% lower than the current fee schedule, when they expected them to be 32% to 35% lower. “We're still reeling,” said Cindy Bishop, owner of Diamond Medical Equipment in Little Rock, Ark., which...

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