HME Headlines

Check the HomeCare Monday archives at www.homecaremonday.com for these and other industry headlines:

• Rehab Carve-Out Gets Boost from Senate Trio
• Pride Calls for Investigation in Riverside CBA
• VGM’s Bendell: ‘Bid Wisely, Bid Appropriately’
• Round One Numbers Alarming: Of 1,005 Bidders, 630 Were Disqualified
• Complex Rehab Stakeholders Buoyed by Push for Carve-Out
• What if CMS Threw a Party and Nobody Came?
• Baird: For Disqualified Bidders, Lawsuit May Be Only Recourse
• Disaster Watchdog Questions Implications of Competitive Bidding
• Efforts to Stop Competitive Bidding ‘Train Wreck’ Continue
• Accreditation Call Ends with Testy Exchange over Round Two Zip Codes
• NRRTS, NCART Head to the Hill
• Gas Prices Rise, and So Do Providers’ Worries
• Sleep Study LCD Is Another False Alarm
• NAIMES Petition Tops 5,000 Signatures
• AAHomecare Sets DC Fly-In to Stop Round One
• Medical Technology Manufacturers Call on CMS to Postpone Round Two
• Ruling on Labs Bidding Demo Could Help HME; Baird Plans to Refile Lawsuit
• Kansas Company Bids Adieu to Medicare Oxygen; Will Others Follow?
• Stack of Letters from Congress Grows; CMS’ Weems Writes Back to Rep. Altmire