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‘Big Issue’ Looms in Respiratory Care
WASHINGTON – The Council for Quality Respiratory Care has made it a priority to find out what happens when the waivers expire that have simplified the process for qualifying a patient for home oxygen therapy during the public health emergency. “We’ve had several conversations internally and with CMS, but there is a big issue looming if…
CMS Finalizes Reimbursement Relief in Rural Areas
IT ALSO ADDRESSES CGMS, INFUSION DRUGS, THERAPEUTIC SHOES WASHINGTON – CMS has published the DMEPOS Final Rule, making permanent the 50/50 blended reimbursement rates in rural areas but failing to provide relief in other areas. For contiguous, non-rural areas, CMS says it will be paying suppliers 100% of the adjusted fee schedule rates using information from…
Contributor: Objective Documentation Protect Patient Access to Home Oxygen Therapy
Facing the challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic, the US medical community has been forced to rapidly change and modernize the manner in which it delivers health care over the last year-and-a-half. Facing the challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic, the US medical community has been forced to rapidly change and modernize the manner in…
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…