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DME Bid Winners That Will Serve Your Patients Announced
If you’re in a Round 2 Competitive Bidding area for durable medical equipment, you can now find out what suppliers will be serving your patients as of July 1. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has executed 586 DMEPOS competitive bidding program contracts (91 percent of contracts offered) for Round 2 in 91 metro areas, the agency reports in a new fact sheet. “The Round 2 Recompete contract suppliers have 2,200 locations to serve Medicare beneficiaries in these CBAs. CMS has also awarded 9 national mail-order recomplete contracts (100 percent of contracts offered),” CMS says.
“CMS was required to include small supplier protections for the program, and instituted a 30 percent small supplier target in each CBA,” the agency says. “For Round 2 Recompete, 92 percent of small suppliers, those with gross revenues of $3.5 million or less as defined for the program, accepted their contract offer and make up 62 percent of all contract suppliers.”
Next up: The Round 1 Recompete will take effect in January 2017.
More info, including the MSAs and DMEPOS items affected, are at www.dmecompetitivebid.com.
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