Competitive Bidding
The competitive bidding process will not only cause a great of amount of confusion
to the patients and their families, but many small HMEs will go out of business
because of the cost just to participate in the bidding process. If the purpose of the
bidding process is to see how much cost can be cut, then take the lowest bids
from the first round, implement them nation wide and allow those who think they
can provide the product for that fee participate at the lower reimbursement.
Many times the patients serviced are elderly and possibly overwhelmed with a
recent discharge from a hospital, home health, physical therapy and medical
equipment needs. This alone is a lot for them to keep track of. When you add to
this that the bed may be coming from one provider, the wheelchair from another,
the wound care from another, the low air loss mattress from another, and the
bedside commode another. Even a young person would have trouble with all of
this. On top of this if the patient needs to move to a family member’s home and
then to a facility. What will happen, if the providers are not notified? It is very
common for the provider to never see that equipment again.
Anonymous
This is comment on Proposed Rule
Medicare Program: Changes to the Competitive Acquisition of Certain Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics and Supplies (DMEPOS) by Certain Provisions of the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 (MIPPA)
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