tci Part B Insider - 2004 Issue 42

Durable Medical Equipment: Are You Throwing $200 K Away?

Gain reimbursement for items that you already provideIf your practice already sends patients home with a month's worth of dressings, or provides complicated wound care supplies, you could be losing out. If your practice enrolled as a durable medical equipment provider, you could bill Medicare for those supplies. One multi-specialty group looked into enrolling either its podiatry practice or its ambulatory surgery center as a DME supplier, says Wendy Ross, vice president of operations with the Medical Technology Group in Bradenton, FL. The group decided not to pursue DME licensure, even though Ross believes the group loses over...

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