tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2006 Issue 27

SUPPLIERS: Prepare Yourself For Looming DME Quality Standards

Final version of standards due this month.Expect a quality-standards wake up call this month if you're a home medical equipment supplier.That's when the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) plans to release the final version of its quality standards for suppliers of durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics and supplies (DMEPOS), insiders say.The release of the proposed standards, most likely via program instructions, will be the first of three big remaining steps toward realizing the feds' plan to bring accreditation to Medicare-certified DMEPOS suppliers.Next: This fall, CMS plans to publish its final rule on DME...

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