Competitive Bidding


VGM Launches Round One Re-compete Seminars

Hosted in Round One’s 9 CBAs, the day-long events will cover all facets of the CMS’s fall re-bid.

Texas HME Sets Sights on NCB

Newspaper column from San Antonio provider educates Lone Star readers on dangers of bid program.

Study: NCB Flaws Result in ‘Disastrous’ Outcome

New Caltech research using computer models demonstrates bid program’s problems.

Competitive Bidding

Weighing the Options

How to develop alternative business plans prior to competitive bidding Round Two implementation.

Mo. Providers Meet with CMS’s Blum

Medicare director fields various questions from HMEs, others in meeting at hospital.

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PFQC Releases Bidding Awareness Video

 ‘Trouble at the Medicare Garage’ uses auto repair scenario to demonstrate NCB’s impact on patients.

Roster of Shuttered Providers Spirals

VGM, NAIMES figures put tally at more than 320 providers closed due to Medicare funding cuts.

Video: Bidding Hearing Testimony Now Online

Watch full-length video of the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee hearing on competitive bidding.

NY Times Opinion Piece Critiques NCB

Boston physician highlights competitive bidding's threat to quality care in guest column.

Providers Pledge to Activate Beneficiaries

More than 300 HMEs engage patients in the fight to stop competitive bidding.



Industry Testifies to House on MPP, NCB

AAHomecare's Marx to Ways and Means: ' We do not oppose properly designed bidding.'

Industry to Support MPP at House Hearing

AAHomecare: May 9 hearing opportunity to point out NCB flaws, call for implementation of market-based alternative.

Editor’s Note:

Making the Rules

Consistency and judiciousness mean little when you control the game.

CMS Projects Significantly Higher NCB Savings

Now that competitive bidding is in Round Two CMS says expanded program will save up to $42.8 billion.

CMS Announces Round One Re-compete

Round one contracts end Dec. 31, 2013; bid schedule to come this summer.

1,000-plus Beneficiaries Urge Senators to Support MPP

25 providers secure signatures from patients, citizens in congressional letter campaign.

Editor's Note:

What’s Your Plan B?

Time is getting awfully tight in the fight to stop NCB; providers must develop options.

Round Two Bidding Ends Today

CMS reminds DMEPOS providers in Round Two CBAs that they must submit by 9 p.m. ET.

Letter Calls on Sen. Grassley to Push for MPP

Waterloo residents, VGM employees urge lawmaker to push CBO to score MPP.

P4QC Unveils NCB Videos

First in a series of videos explaining bid program's pitfalls hits Youtube.

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