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The overall Medicare denial rate for claims for A4353, intermittent urinary catheter, is 18.5 percent.
Deadly tornadoes push HME providers past preparedness plans in taking care of patients.
'Good enough' no longer cuts it, and the stakes are higher than ever.
Make this 10-point plan a part of your convention sales process.
CMS will hold its 16th education call on implementation of HIPAA Version 5010 and D.0 transaction standards on Wednesday, May 25.
Industry consultant Andrea Stark of MiraVista LLC offers a clear explanation of how CMS' new reasonable useful lifetime (RUL) policy for stationary and portable oxygen equipment affects HME suppliers.
CMS came out with a face-to-face examination checklist for power mobility devices, but it might be a case of too little, too late, some providers say.
The widespread prepay probe reviews of claims includes K0001 (standard wheelchair), K0003 (lightweight wheelchair) and K0004 (high strength lightweight wheelchair).
Even as CMS maintains it hasn't received many complaints about competitive bidding, problems continue to surface. AMEPA reported one from a North Miami, Fla., woman who just wanted to breathe.
The results of a prepayment review of claims for home blood glucose monitor supplies in Jurisdiction A weren't exactly stellar, according to
Have you tried to call the 1-800-Medicare line lately? VGM's John Gallagher has, and he didn't get very far. In fact, he said of several attempts to register a complaint, calling in is a frustrating and time-consuming dead end.
Oxygen delivery systems may be the least understood and least appreciated machines in the eyes of government regulators.
New Medicare policies hamper access to mobility.
The A6243 — hydrogel dressing, wound cover, sterile pad, each — has an overall denial percentage of 19.4.
If ever there was a time to get involved, it is now.
When Chris Kinard asked Medtrade Spring attendees to describe the HME industry's current condition in one word, some of the responses he got were "catastrophe," "chaos," "uncertainty," "change" and "craziness."
You are not in business to break even; you are in business to make a profit.
You can't run, you can't hide from HHS' new authority.