Letter to Congress urging replacement to competitive bidding show growing industry unity.
- By David Kopf
- Oct 19, 2011
Appropriations Committee leaders task GAO with a comprehensive review of bid program.
- By David Kopf
- Oct 13, 2011
NCPA survey confirms that cuts from bid program will cause a mass exodus by community pharmacies.
- By David Kopf
- Oct 13, 2011
Bid repeal bill at 156 cosponsors as Congress approaches recess.
- By David Kopf
- Oct 06, 2011
Series of two-day events aims to give attendees the “ins and outs” of Round Two of competitive bidding.
- By David Kopf
- Oct 06, 2011
Respiratory and Sleep Funding Outlook
If Round Two wasn’t on respiratory providers’ radar, it probably is now, making it a good time to look at the recent past to peer into the near future.
- By Joseph Duffy
- Oct 01, 2011
Disease Management
To HME providers and the industry as a whole, disease management has become a casualty of cuts, caps and competitive bidding.
- By Joseph Duffy
- Oct 01, 2011
Editor's Note
If you believe that middle America is the true engine of the economic growth, then it is imperative that those residing in that economic sweet spot need to be regularly and gainfully employed so that they can invest back into the economy.
- By David Kopf
- Oct 01, 2011
Business Solutions
The industry finds itself at a crossroads when it comes to the fight against competitive bidding. The toxic program clearly needs to be repealed, but the current political environment might not be hospitable to that proposal. Can the industry live with a middle ground solution?
- By David Kopf
- Oct 01, 2011
Business Solutions
The removal of the first-month purchase option has forever changed the standard power mobility industry? How have they fared since implementation? What does the HHS Office of Inspector General’s recently increased efforts to call mobility funding into question portend?
- By Joseph Duffy
- Oct 01, 2011
Reimbursement reductions part of $230 billion plan to cover doc fix.
- By David Kopf
- Sep 27, 2011
Observation Deck:
The proposed market-based replacement solves multiple problems.
- By Wayne Stanfield
- Sep 27, 2011
Fifty-city seminar series on NCB preparation is open to anyone.
- By David Kopf
- Sep 27, 2011
Association proposes program as a replacement for Medicare’s competitive bidding program.
- By David Kopf
- Sep 27, 2011
Large bidding areas add possibly insurmountable layers of complexity, including potential interstate trade issues.
- By David Kopf
- Sep 20, 2011
Observation Deck:
A letter to the President reminding him that the job-killing competitive bidding program runs counter to his job-growth program.
- By David Krause
- Sep 20, 2011
Providers urge President to recognize expansion of CMS's bid program will kill jobs.
- By David Kopf
- Sep 15, 2011
Competitive bidding contractor reminds providers of Round Two schedule.
- By David Kopf
- Sep 08, 2011
House competitive bidding repeal bill now up to 150 co-sponsors.
- By David Kopf
- Sep 08, 2011
Contrary to Congressional directives, CMS has made no changes to Round Two to protect beneficiaries.
- By David Kopf
- Aug 25, 2011