Spreading the HME Message

On what Congress needs to know We’re not really fraudulent. We’re not overpaid. We’re a small percentage of the whole pie.

By HomeCare Staff

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.

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