The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is expanding its competitive bidding program for durable medical equipment to 91 new cities, for an estimated savings of $28 billion over 10 years, the ...

N.J., is spearheading a congressional sign-on letter to CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz to delay the competitive bidding program (CBP) for ostomy and urological supplies, AAHomecare reports.

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 ...

David Nexon fears that rushing the bidding program will result in payer and patient confusion. Medicare's competitive bidding program for durable medical equipment is far behind schedule, according to ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the coming days, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is expected to make an announcement that could further depress investor confidence in the prospects of the oxygen equipment and ...

The number of Medicare beneficiaries receiving durable medical equipment items decreased after the implementation of a competitive bidding program, possibly from a reduction in device fraud, according ...

Some healthcare suppliers are faring well after CMS implemented a new competitive bidding program aimed at cutting healthcare costs, according to a Leader Times news report. Three months ago, CMS ...

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 ...