Tag: Oxygen reform
In brief: Viemed deal, oxygen reform, sleep study
April 3, 2024HME News Staff
LAFAYETTE, La. – Viemed Healthcare has finalized its strategic partnership with East Alabama Health, providing the company with a controlling interest in East Alabama HomeMed.
East Alabama HomeMed provides HME services to patients within the EAH network, which encompasses East Alabama Medical Center in Opelika, Ala., and EAMC-Lanier Hospital in Valley, Ala., with a combined medical staff of 380 physicians, as well as those in the surrounding areas of Eastern Alabama.
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Wall Street Journal article: "Oxygen Rules Pinching Patients"
November 24, 2009Mike Moran
An article in today's Wall Street Journal does a nice job explaining how Medicare's 36-month oxygen cap has hurt patients and HME providers.
After all the "hit pieces" uninformed mainstream journalists have written about the HME industry, this article is a breathe of fresh air. I like that it focuses on the plight of small businesses and patients for a change, and not fraud and abuse.
At some point, those who have it out for the HME industry are going to have to give up their crazed obsession. If...
Don't repeat the past
October 6, 2009Liz Beaulieu, Editor
Unless you've been living under a rock, you're probably familiar with how the industry's efforts to reform the oxygen benefit have been going. In a nutshell: Not very smoothly.
Don Clayback and other industry stakeholders involved in reforming the complex power wheelchair benefit don't live under a rock. That's why they've scheduled several events to gather feedback from interested parties. In addition to two Webinars this month, they've scheduled a consensus conference...
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer, or something like that
September 16, 2009Mike Moran
AAHomecare is in a difficult position. It is the industry's national association, yet it has a relatively small membership. As such, non-members are often prone to question the association's motives on a variety of issues.
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Most recently, as we all know, the issue has been oxygen reform.
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How best to reform Medicare's oxygen benefit has divided the industry for months. In August, a compromise...
The cost of breathing
June 16, 2009Mike Moran
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Oxygen utilization nosedives
June 10, 2009Mike Moran
Most of you are familiar with the Medicare Market Marker in the back of each issue of HME News. The marker tracks the number of allowed beneficiaries in a given month for five product categories.
Here's a preview of what you'll see in our July issue: The number of allowed beneficiaries for oxygen concentrators (E1390) for January 2009 fell off a cliff. In Jurisdiction C, for example, the number of allowed beneficiaries was 277,292 in January compared to 407,719 in December.
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Cuts take their toll
May 14, 2009Mike Moran
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Now that some of the national HME providers have reported their earnings for the first quarter of 2009, we're getting a pretty good picture of the impact of the 36-month oxygen cap and the 9.5% reimbursement cut, which both kicked in Jan. 1.
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American HomePatient: $6.2 million (first quarter)
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HME Expo, Day 2
April 24, 2009Mike Moran
U Turn video Industry stakeholders told attendees of the HME Exposition & Conference today that they expect a bill to be introduced in the next few weeks that would repeal the 36-month oxygen cap.
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Industry stakeholders are working with Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., the lead sponsor of last year's H.R. 621, to introduce the bill, according to John Gallagher, vice president of government relations for The VGM Group. Another supporter of the effort: Rep. Heath Shuler, D-N.C.
Once the bill is...
The details you've been waiting for?
January 28, 2009Mike Moran
Cigna Government Services, the DME MAC for Jurisdiction C, released a bulletin this afternoon that appears to contain additional details on the 36-month oxygen cap.
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The bulletin addresses how to replace oxygen equipment after the five-year reasonable useful lifetime and how to bill for contents
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