Home Health & Hospice Week
Your Patients May Need New DME Supplier In New Year
Medicare is patting itself on the back for cutting hundreds of millions of dollars annually from durable medical equipment spending via competitive bidding.
“Since implementation of the DMEPOS Competitive Bidding Program on January 1, 2011, CMS has saved approximately $220 million per year in the nine Round 1 metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) due to competitive bidding and other CMS fraud, waste, and abuse initiatives,” the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services says in a release about Round 1 2017 bidding, which starts Jan. 1.
CMS maintains that there are no access problems. “Health monitoring data indicate that the program implementation is going smoothly with few inquiries or complaints and no negative beneficiary health outcomes,” according to the release.
CMS has begun offering contracts to 198 winning bidders. Of the more than 1,500 contract offers, 97 percent are to bidders who currently furnish items in the awarded area or within the product category, the agency says. More information is online at www.dmecompetitivebid.com.
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