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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Economists and trade groups are shifting into high gear in their years-long fight against a controversial Medicare bidding process that they say is overrun with operational problems but that federal ...

Despite Congressional pressure and lobbying from the home care and medical device industries, the Obama administration isn’t backing off from plans to proceed with a program designed to save billions ...

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 ...