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CMS sunsets CMN for home oxygen

October 1, 2021Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor

WASHINGTON – CMS on Sept. 27 posted a final national coverage determination for home oxygen, but now industry stakeholders must “wait and see” what the DME Medicare Administrative Contractors do with the changes. While the effective date of the NCD is technically Sept. 27, it won’t be implemented until a later date, when the DME MACs update their local coverage determinations. “There are a lot of positives here, and we will wait and see,” says...

AAHomecare, Certificate of Medical Necessity (CMN), home oxygen NCD, Kim Brummett, Ronda Buhrmester, VGM & Associates