Medicare Durable Medical Equipment. The Competitive Bidding Program

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Competition.

Medical economics.

Public contracts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Contained In:

ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] [publisher not identified] 2010

Summary:

Provides legislative development of the Medicare competitive acquisition program to help fund durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, and other medical supplies (DMEPOS). Follows program evolution through P.L. 105-33, the Balanced Budget Act of 1997; P.L. 108-173, the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003; P.L. 110-275, the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008; and P.L. 111-148, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Summarizes implementation concerns of suppliers; outlines administrative responses to those concerns and GAO analysis of implementation issues; and reviews provisions of H.R. 3790, to repeal the DMEPOS competitive bidding program and require specified reductions to the fee schedule updates

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Other Format:

Microfiche version Library of CongressCongressional Research Service Medicare Durable Medical Equipment

Publisher Number:

CRS-2010-DSP-0530

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