As the government prepares to roll out a program in 10 markets for medical equipment suppliers to bid on Medicare contracts, witnesses at a Congressional hearing expressed concern about the next stage ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have announced plans to expand the controversial competitive bidding program for medical devices which has to this point been a pilot project. The ...

WASHINGTON – Ignoring months of protests, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced in late August the next steps for a major expansion of a competitive bidding program designed to ...

Through its purchases of durable medical equipment (DME), the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) helps many patients remain in their home and out of hospitals or other long-term care ...

The winds of change are blowing for all medical suppliers. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently proposed reforming the competitive bidding process for Durable Medical Equipment ...

Three years after results from a study in Diabetes Care revealed how flaws in CMS’ Competitive Bidding Program endangered Medicare patients who rely on supplies to test their blood glucose, the ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services claim their new competitive bidding program has not resulted in any changes in beneficiary health outcomes. But CMS’s observations differ significantly ...

A trade group representing medical equipment manufacturers and suppliers is suing the Bush administration, seeking to block the implementation of a competitive bidding program for their products. The ...

The DMEPOS Competitive Bidding Program was established by the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003.[2] The Program was created with the purpose of setting more ...

From the inception of the Medicare program there have been questions regarding whether and how to pay for durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, and supplies. In 2011 the Centers for ...