Posted by: Rob Brant
on May 27, 2009
Another argument of DMEPOS Competitive Bidding has already been achieved: The reduction of the majority of providers.
Last year when Medicare published the 44 oxygen bid winners in the Miami MSA, our organization recorded the number of oxygen providers listed on Medicare's website for the area (Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties). In April 2008 there were 501 oxygen providers listed in the Miami MSA. Today medicare.gov states that there are only 388 oxygen providers listed in the Miami MSA, a reduction of 113 providers.
Posted by: Rob Brant
on May 12, 2009
Before the bid window was opened in 2007, the buzz around "How to Bid" seminars was that the 1999 Demonstration Project in Polk County and the 2001 Demonstration Project in San Antonio boasted a 17%-20% savings to Medicare's DMEPOS program. Despite the fact that in the Polk County Demonstration Project: two bid winners filed for bankruptcy, only half of the 16 bid winners in Round One of the Demonstration Project decided to bid again in Round Two, and none of the bid winners in either Demonstration Project were required to be accredited, the Demonstration Project is the basis for running and re-running the same flawed competitive bidding program.
