Inside CMS
Medical equipment suppliers may urge lawmakers to use health care reform as a vehicle to dictate how CMS proceeds on round 1 rebids in the controversial durable medical equipment competitive bidding programs if the agency doesn’t address suppliers’ concerns, an industry source told Inside CMS. Calculating capacity and demand within DME competitive bidding areas (CBAs) remained a contentious issue between CMS and the supplier industry following the first Program Advisory Oversight Committee (PAOC) meeting, held June 4.