President Bush has signed into law S. 2499, the “Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007." Most notably, the legislation postpones for six months a 10.1% across-the-board cut in Medicare physician payments that was scheduled to go into effect January 1, 2008.
Continue Reading...This post was written by Debra McCurdy, Carol Loepere, and Elizabeth Carder-Thompson.
I. INTRODUCTION
On January 8, 2008, CMS announced the second phase of Medicare competitive bidding for durable medical equipment (“DME”), prosthetics, orthotics, and supplies (“DMEPOS”). In this second round, competitive bidding will be implemented in 70 areas, including the nation’s largest cities. The complete list of areas can be found at Appendix 1. With very limited exception, only suppliers who are successful bidders in these regions and who meet program standards (including accreditation) will be eligible to furnish eight categories of DMEPOS to Medicare beneficiaries beginning next year. Successful bidders will be paid based on the median of the winning suppliers’ bids for each of the selected items in the region, rather than the Medicare fee schedule or supplier bid amount.
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