AAHomecare Scores Airtime on Sept. 5 ‘Washington Journal’

WASHINGTON—C-SPAN will give the American Association for
Homecare a 30-minute slot on its “Washington Journal.”
The program is scheduled to air on Saturday, Sept. 5, at 9:30 a.m.
ET.  
 
HME provider Joel Marx, president and CEO of Medical Service
Company, Cleveland, and chair of AAHomecare’s HME/RT Advisory
Council, will represent the association on the show, typically
aired both on television and on the C-SPAN radio network.
 
 
AAHomecare said C-SPAN offered the airtime because of the
association’s concern over “misrepresentations about
home medical equipment.”
 
On the program’s Thursday (Aug. 27) edition, former Medicare
Administrator Bruce Vladeck told viewers that Congress has thwarted
every attempt to cut HME reimbursement and that home oxygen is
“nothing but air.”
  
Vladeck’s comments drew a swift rebuttal from
AAHomecare’s Michael Reinemer, who labeled them
“outrageous” and responded in a blog and an email that
was read by the C-SPAN host on Friday’s edition of the
popular program.
 
For AAHomecare’s rebuttal on the Aug. 28 show (beginning at the
1:48 mark), click here.
 
To read AAHomecare’s blog, see: http://blog.aahomecare.org/.