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CQRC joins 13 other respiratory care stakeholders in urging CMS to require objective documentation to establish medical necessity WASHINGTON, DC – The Council for Quality Respiratory Care – a coalition of the nation’s leading home respiratory therapy providers and manufacturing companies – today united with 13 other home respiratory care leaders in sending a letter to…

Home respiratory care leaders remain concerned that subjective medical record review will create unnecessary access barriers for patients WASHINGTON, DC – The Council for Quality Respiratory Care – a coalition of the nation’s leading home respiratory therapy providers and manufacturing companies – today commended the expansion of home respiratory care services for acute patients in the…

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…

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…

WASHINGTON, DC – Home respiratory care providers have played a crucial role amid the ongoing public health emergency and lawmakers should support policies that ensure long-term reimbursement stability in the market, the Council for Quality Respiratory Care stated in testimony to the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health. The CQRC submitted the testimony as part of a…

CQRC stresses need for long-term sector stability to ensure continued access to those requiring respiratory care for both acute and chronic needs WASHINGTON, DC – The Council for Quality Respiratory Care – a coalition of the nation’s leading home respiratory therapy providers and manufacturing companies – submitted testimony to the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on…

The Council for Quality Respiratory Care (CQRC)-a coalition of the nation’s leading home respiratory therapy providers and manufacturing companies-thanked The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for the appropriate application of recent legislative action to eliminate the budget neutrality statutory requirement to certain home oxygen equipment and services. By doing so, CMS has preserved…

With covid-19 cases surging and hospital capacity dwindling, you rightly point out that the nation’s oxygen supply chain is being stretched to the limit (”In Los Angeles and Beyond, Oxygen Is the Latest Covid Bottleneck,” Jan. 7). Given unprecedented demand and a global shortage of critical supplies including oxygen concentrators, the severe pressures in the…

DME industry leaders ask CMS to extend Medicare flexibilities and make permanent the 50-50 blended rate for rural areas WASHINGTON, DC – The Council for Quality Respiratory Care – a coalition of the nation’s leading home respiratory therapy providers and manufacturing companies – partnered with the American Association for Homecare and The VGM Group in sending a…

WASHINGTON – CMS’s competitive bidding program set the stage for a number of the difficulties that the HME industry is seeing as it tries to meet increased demand for oxygen therapy for COVID-19 patients, say the leaders of Apria Healthcare and Lincare and the Council of Quality Respiratory Care.  The agency may have dropped oxygen from Round 2021, its latest round of bidding, but 10 years since the program’s kickoff and…