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OIG Wants Bidding Prices For DME.

Published on Fri Sep 13, 2013

Your patients might have even more of a hassle securing durable medical equipment and supplies they need, if the HHS Office of Inspector General gets its way. The OIG suggests that CMS and Medicaid programs could save money if they adopted competitive bidding payment rates for DMEPOS, according to a new report. "In FFY 2011, the Texas Medicaid fee-schedule amounts [...]
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