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Providers in the diabetes sector face competitive bidding prices that don't add up.
Oxygen products and accessories, including: AirSep's Focus; Invacare's SOLO2; Life Corp.'s Emergency Oxygen Units; Air Lift's Liquid Oxygen Backpack Carrier; Maxtec's MaxO2+; Caire's Helios Plus; and more.
Last year's crop of da Vinci Awards winners highlighted technologies that enable equal access for all people, regardless of ability.
Aging population and active lifestyles drive the manual wheelchair market against funding issues and bidding uncertainty.
As this issue went to press, economist Peter Cramton had invited home medical equipment stakeholders to an industry shindig of sorts — a Medicare conference that has as its centerpiece a mock HME auction.
National competitive bidding may have started, but the industry hasn't stopped its efforts to get the program repealed.
With the elimination of the least costly alternative (LCA) determination, the following rules apply under this new guidance:
How are things going with competitive bidding? It depends who you ask.
Failure to act will cause irreversible harm.
Consumers with complex rehab technology needs deserve a separate benefit.
Your brand experience better shine and delight. Yes, delight!
Wouldn't it be interesting if our customers helped us create a sales plan?
What PPACA has to say about it
Various HME products, including: Otto Bock's Kiwi Pediatric Wheelchair; PP&R Products' Comfort Caddy; GF Health Products' Lumex AltaDyne 765000; Quantum Rehab's Synergy Solution; Diabco's ARX-Lite; and more.
While the timing of the national mail-order bid for diabetic supplies has not yet been announced, here are the basics of what the program will look like:
According to an OIG report, providers submitted claims for at least 75 types of mail-order diabetic test strips in the last quarter of 2009.
Manual wheelchairs are a mainstay for many mobility providers, yet sales reps spend little time analyzing how to sell them.
Round 1 contract providers in the Charlotte, Miami and Orlando competitive bidding areas have reported CO-108 denials on standard power wheelchair claims, reports AMEPA.
160 providers, clinicians and consumers attending the annual CELA Conference helped push a separate Medicare benefit for complex rehab the first step of the way with more than 220 visits to legislators