CMS has announced it will pilot its competitive bidding program for durable medical equipment in 91 additional major metropolitan areas after its initial one-year pilot in nine cities saved the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 & Medicaid Services has reopened bids for durable medical equipment suppliers in a “round-one rebid” for its competitive bidding program for DME, prosthetics, orthotics and ...

Medicare’s competitive bidding program for durable medical equipment was not built to last, new research asserts. The program requires skilled nursing facilities seeking DME supplies to purchase them ...

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 ...

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 ...