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  • 2011’s Top HR Challenges

    All involved in the home care industry are very familiar with CMS, OIG and the Stark law. We keep current with issues around ZPIC, RAC and DME MAC audits.
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  • Standards of Behavior

    The revised Medicare supplier enrollment standards for DMEPOS have been in force for six months or so, since Sept. 27, 2010. Home medical equipment companies
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  • Latest HME News

  • A Broad Coalition Grows

    Patient advocates and home care providers are working together to highlight the importance of H.R. 1041, the Fairness in Medicare Bidding Act, which would
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  • Don’t Exercise the Excise

    Why HME shouldn’t be subject to PPACA’s medical device excise tax Earlier in 2011, industry stakeholders submitted comments to the Internal Revenue Service
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  • Mistake-Free Retail

    After several months of operating a new HME retail store, the owners, who had expanded from a traditional HME business, are very disappointed. Sales are
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  • Moving Toward the Masses

    The CPAP market looks a lot like the rest of the home care industry these days: full of potential mixed with uncertainty.
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  • More RAD Requests

    As the sleep community becomes more aware of the incidence of complex sleep apnea, HME providers are seeing more requests to distribute the E0471 respiratory
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  • Stark: In Current Audit Climate, You’re ‘Guilty until Proven Innocent’

    HME providers face situations every day that fall into areas of gray, but the unforgiving climate of Medicare audits is all black-and-white.
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  • 90% Error Rate on K0823 Claims — Forms Won’t Work, Noridian Says

    A Jurisdiction D DME MAC prepayment review of K0823 power wheelchairs has resulted in a 90% error rate, mostly because of lack of documentation, according to a Noridian Administrative Services notice.
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  • H.R. 1041 Introduced to Repeal Competitive Bidding

    H.R. 1041, the new bill to repeal DMEPOS competitive bidding, which is called the Fairness in Medicare Bidding Act, was introduced Friday by Reps. Jason Altmire, D-Pa., and Glenn Thompson, R-Pa.
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  • Q&A with Jeff Baird: What the Federal E-Sign Act Means for You

    “Fortunately, technology and a federal statute have intervened to make it easier for the provider to obtain the beneficiary’s signature. In a number of instances, a ‘blue ink’ signature is not required.”
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  • Transcript Available for CERT Call on Oxygen

    Both a written transcript and audio version of a CERT Ask the Contractor call on oxygen policy has been posted on the DME MACs’ websites.
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