On what Congress needs to know
“We're not really fraudulent. We're not overpaid. We're a
small percentage of the whole pie. We're the solution, not the
problem. Health care costs are going up. The demographics [show]
that home care needs to be there. It doesn't make sense to
eliminate 90 percent of the providers when there's going to be more
demand. I would just like my congressmen to get that.”
— Patrick Hanna, BK Home Medical Services, Tiffin,
Ohio
On competitive bidding
“I think the competitive bidding train is on the track. We
have to work to come up with the best implementation plan of that
through the PAOC … but my real hope is that it will fall on
its face after being implemented. I think it's a flawed policy, and
my hope is that Congress and CMS will see that and enact laws to
change it in the future.”
— Joel Mills, Advanced Home Care, Greensboro, N.C.
“There is no tomorrow. There is no coming back. This is a
death knell coming toward our industry.”
— John Gallagher, VGM, Waterloo, Iowa
On the oxygen cap
“The reality is, as people start to struggle and
businesses start to fail, where are those patients going to end up?
Providers aren't going to take on a patient with no reimbursement;
someone else already got the payment for 36 months. It's only going
to affect the patients.”
— A. J. Filippis, Wright & Filippis, Rochester Hills,
Mich.
