As the president of a Boston based respiratory company I would quickly like to share a few issues in regards to the completely irrational decisions that CMS has made:
As the president of a Boston based respiratory company I would quickly
like to share a few issues in regards to the completely irrational
decisions that CMS has made:
1. We had a capped patient at MGH who wanted to spend her last months
living with her daughter in Virginia. We couldn’t find a provider in that
section of Virginia wiling to service her. She spent 3 extra nights at
MGH and ultimately we had to UPS her concentrator to her daughters house
in Virginia.
2. A small DME company in Mass is deciding not to continue in the
Medicare program and will be filing Chapter 11 soon. 29 out of 75 oxygen
patients are capped. We were approached by this company to help them out.
Unfortunately for the patients the company can not find a provider willing
to service 29 capped patients who all require tanks and liquid. These
patients were sent a letter stating that in 30 days they will not have a
provider.
3. I along with many other providers are bucking the rule that Medicare
put forth that we are responsible for our traveling oxygen patients. We
as a company can not incure thousands of dollars in expenses when a capped
out patient wants to travel. Why hasn’t this industry filed an injunction
in relation to this. Any sane judge would understad that it is impossible
for a provider to take care of a patient for free for 2 years
