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New Economic Study Exposes Faults in Controversial Medicare Competitive Bidding Program Scheduled to Start this Fall

Study Shows that Competitive Bidding Benefits Insurance Companies and Forces Many Seniors to Use Out-of-State Providers

ARLINGTON, VA, August 10, 2009 – The American Association for Homecare hosted a media conference call this afternoon, unveiling a new economic study that exposes severe flaws in the Medicare competitive bidding program for durable medical equipment and services. The bidding program is set to re-start this October. The study, released today by Brian O’Roark, PhD, of Robert Morris University, found that the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services … Continue Reading

Not only are you going forward with competitive bidding, but you are telling these companies tha tthey ahve to provide free service from the 36th month through the 60th month. Who else has to provide free service even if the patient decides to move out of their area? And if you go out of business you have to continue to service these people? How well is that going to work. Not only are the people going to get bad service, the companies aren’t going to be able to make it. This just makes no sense for anyone involved except CMS>