Archive for July 2021
Home Respiratory Leaders Support Maintaining Certificate of Medical Need Requirement to Protect Providers & Patient Access
Objective documentation is critical to demonstrating patient eligibility for Medicare home respiratory care services WASHINGTON, DC – The Council for Quality Respiratory Care – a coalition of the nation’s leading home respiratory therapy providers and manufacturing companies – today expressed concern in response to the Proposed Decision Memo for Home Use of Oxygen and Home Oxygen Use…
Read MoreCQRC on CMN: ‘It Has Been An Anchor’
WASHINGTON, DC – The Council for Quality Respiratory Care in a statement today encouraged CMS to reconsider eliminating the CMN for home oxygen therapy. The CQRC, a coalition of the nation’s largest respiratory providers and manufacturers, says doing that would replace “objective testing ordered by a patient’s physician for the subjective decision-making of Medicare contractors.” “We…
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