Tag: tracheostomy supplies
AdvaMed urges CMS to protect patient access following final plans for CBP
December 1, 2025HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – AdvaMed has weighed in on CMS’s final plans to include continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), as well as ostomy, tracheostomy and urological supplies, in the next round of the competitive bidding program (CBP).
The group says it is concerned about the potential impact on patient access of the agency’s plans to include supplies as product categories for Remote Item Delivery (RID) product categories.
“We...
Movement grows to shield critical medical supplies from Medicare competitive bidding
October 3, 2025Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
WASHINGTON – Efforts to exclude medical supplies from the next round of Medicare competitive bidding are gaining steam as lawmakers and patient advocacy groups join industry stakeholders in pulling at some of the many weak threads of the program.
Overreach of the statute language?
When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) first released details on the latest round of the program on June 30, the agency specified that ostomy, tracheostomy and urological supplies...
Reps urge CMS to drop certain supplies from next round of bidding
September 30, 2025HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – Reps. Neal Dunn, R-Fla., and Greg Murphy, R-N.C., are leading a sign-on letter urging the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) not to move forward with expanding the competitive bidding program to include ostomy, urological and tracheostomy supplies. They seek signatures by close of business this Friday, Oct. 3.
“We respectfully request that the proposal for inclusion of these products be withdrawn as we believe it would conflict with the administration's...