Budget: Medicare Bill Takes Aim At Oxygen, Wheelchairs
Home health agency and hospice payments are safe, for now
Politicians in Washington, DC are getting down to business in figuring out how to pay for Medicare's physician payment adjustment, and it could be oxygen and wheelchair suppliers who suffer.
Home health agencies, hospices and durable medical equipment suppliers have all feared receiving payment cuts in the bill that will avert the 10 percent cut to physician payment rates set to go into effect July 1. But in Democrats' first pass at a bill (S. 3101), just oxygen and wheelchair providers' fears are realized.
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