tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2006 Issue 27

COMPETITIVE BIDDING: Bidding Tailored Toward Conventional Suppliers

Therapists, docs lobby for exclusions.Small suppliers of durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics and supplies (DMEPOS)--led by hand therapists and other niche suppliers--delivered a strong case for exclusion from competitive bidding in the weeks leading up to the June 30 close of comments on the DME competitive bidding rule."We're suppliers in that we have DME supplier ID numbers," explains Ginger Clark, a hand therapist and owner of Hand Rehabilitation Services in Bradenton, FL. But in most ways, therapists, physicians and other direct health care providers--individuals who supply products such as wrist splints and air casts--are more "practitioner"...

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