Tag: legislative landscape
Stakeholders key up for small legislative window
September 18, 2015Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
WASHINGTON - It's game time for the HME industry, with stakeholders expecting a bill to “fix” the nationwide expansion of bid pricing to drop in the next few weeks.“We've got a very small window,” said Tom Ryan, president and CEO of AAHomecare. “Our providers across rural America have been very vocal this summer. (They don't want to) wake up to see an overnight decrease of 45%.”The bill, drafted by Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., would provide a 30% increase in reimbursement...