Tag: Congressional Hearing
CQRC adds its voice to hearing on chronic disease management
November 24, 2025HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – The Council for Quality Respiratory Care (CQRC) sent a letter to the U.S. House Ways & Means Health Subcommittee Chairman Vernon Buchanan and Ranking Member Lloyd Doggett II in response to a recent hearing on “Modernizing Care Coordination to Prevent and Treat Chronic Disease.” The letter expressed the CQRC’s appreciation for holding a hearing to consider ways to address challenges in diagnosing and managing chronic diseases and acknowledged the important bipartisan...
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May 9, 2013HME News Staff
Editor's note: This is an email that provider Patrick Naeger sent to the office of Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo, following the congressional hearing to review provider business practices and Medicare audits. McCaskill leads the Subcommittee on Financial & Contracting Oversight, which held the hearing.
After watching the hearing yesterday I am a bit frustrated. Clearly, the one thing missing was the DME provider. While the hearing did not shed a good light on the industry, as a whole, it did bring...
Medicare fraud: 'Much more needs to be done'
November 21, 2012HME News Staff
WASHINGTON - Lawmakers in the House of Representatives will hold a hearing Nov. 28 to “assess current anti-fraud measures employed by CMS and explore potential new approaches to address these substantial and ongoing threats.”
The Energy & Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Health will hold the hearing at 10 a.m. in 2123 Rayburn House Office Building.
The witnesses scheduled to testify at the hearing are:
� Neville Pattinson, senior vice president of...