...support needed via "Dear Colleague Letter" DEADLINE: Tomorrow, Friday, June 12th at noon

Yesterday, Congressman Kendrick Meek (D-FL) and Mike Ross (D-AR), announced a "Sign On" letter to gain support for new oxygen reform policy. A draft proposal of the letter was first released last week at AAHomecare's Washington Conference and contains the majority of the oxygen reform concept, created by their New Oxygen Coalition (NOC), which I participated in.

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"Medicare told me they resolved the problems from last year's competitive bidding program, but if you hear differently at the PAOC meeting, I want to know about it"

That's what Congresswoman Ginny Brown-Waite (R-Lake County, FL), who serves on the Health Subcommittee of Ways and Means told me on Wednesday afternoon during a meeting in her Washington office.

Unfortunately for her constituents in the round one Orlando MSA, little has changed. The Competitive Bidding program in DMEPOS is still a bid without financial accountability that will still allow unqualified companies to low ball bid to achieve their goal: not the ability to continue serving patients, but to sell their company after winning the bid.

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Attendee at the PAOC meeting, happening today in Baltimore, MD

This morning at the PAOC meeting in Baltimore, CMS released a tentatitive timeline which announced that Competitive Bidding would not be implemented until January 2011. This is a surprise and relief for the industry which anticipated a rush to apply the first round MSA's by the Spring/Summer of 2010

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