tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2008 Issue 16

Home Care: Competitive Bidding Program Reductions 'Unsustainable'

Medicare funding reductions may eliminate key jobs when demands for quality Leaders in the home oxygen community expressed concern on March 20 over the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' announcement about projected program reductions tied to Medicare's competitive bidding program for the home oxygen therapy benefit. The Council for Quality Respiratory Care chairman Peter Kelly said, "Changes stemming from new competitive bidding policies are even more dramatic than anticipated, and the breadth of those changes should cause policymakers -- and all of us who care for Medicare's sickest beneficiaries -- to stop and assess carefully the effect these...

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