tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2007 Issue 41

MEDICAL EQUIPMENT: For Bidders, New Game May Be 'Wait And See'

Seniors' access to care could suffer if DMEPOS suppliers are fewThe feds remain mum about how many home medical equipment suppliers submitted bids in phase one of Medicare's competitive bidding program--but beneficiaries may be in for the biggest surprise.Though the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) was still projecting recently that nearly 16,000 suppliers would bid--and that more than 12,000 would be awarded contracts--the agency now says that only a few thousand suppliers of durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics and suppliers (DMEPOS) may be in a position to sign on the dotted line for the...

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