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Home Respiratory Care Leaders Commend Inclusion of Telehealth Provisions in 21st Century Cures 2.0
CQRC Supports Bipartisan Bill to Permanently Extend Medicare Telehealth Flexibilities and Increase Access to Telehealth Services WASHINGTON, DC – The Council for Quality Respiratory Care (CQRC) – a coalition of the nation’s leading home respiratory therapy providers and manufacturing companies – today commended House lawmakers for including an important provision to permanently extend the home as…
Stakeholders to CMS: Acknowledge Our Concerns
WASHINGTON – A coalition of respiratory stakeholders, including the Council for Quality Respiratory Care, are again asking CMS to ensure that objective standards for prescribing home oxygen therapy are put in place to prevent payment issues for HME providers and access issues for patients. In an Oct. 4 letter, the CQRC and 11 other organizations, including AAHomecare…
Home Respiratory Community Unites to Remove Medicare Barriers to Accessing Home Oxygen Therapies
Dear Administrator Brooks-LaSure: As leaders in the home respiratory community, we thank you for the support that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has provided to providers and suppliers during the COVID-19 pandemic. As we have shared in other comments, expanding access to home oxygen therapy to certain acute beneficiaries, as well as…
Home Respiratory Community Unites to Urge Removal of Medicare Barriers to Accessing Home Oxygen Therapies
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…
New PRI Issue Brief Supports Reforms to Medicare’s DMEPOS Competitive Bidding Process for Improved Quality and Sustainability
The Pacific Research Institute’s recent report on CMS’s reimbursement system details flaws in Medicare’s competitive bidding methodology, including supply shortages, and outlines needed reforms to ensure Americans’ access to care. WASHINGTON, DC –– A issue brief published by the Center for Medical Economics and Innovation at the Pacific Research Institute (PRI) this week highlights flaws in the Centers…
SOAR Act: Help Those Who Struggle to Breathe
Living on the Space Coast, where sending rockets into orbit is a regular occurrence, you’d think innovation knows no bounds. If we can send people into space, surely, we can make the latest healthcare technologies available to patients struggling to breathe! Sadly, that is not the case for many patients in need of medical oxygen….
World Oxygen Day: National Health Groups Amplify Patient Voices to Stress Importance of Oxygen Reform
WASHINGTON, DC – (October 2, 2025) – Today, in honor of World Oxygen Day (October 2), leading patient, provider, and professional organizations are amplifying the voices of people on supplemental oxygen to stress the critical importance of oxygen reform and the urgent need for legislative action. These advocates, representing the 1.5 million people in the U.S. who rely…
Lung Patient Community Calls for Supplemental Oxygen Reform
Mary was diagnosed with a rare lung disease at 40 years old. Beverly loves playing tennis but struggles to do so with an oxygen tank. Sarah’s active lifestyle depends on access to liquid oxygen so that she can leave the house for more than a few hours. These stories are similar to many more shared on Capitol Hill for the American…