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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…
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…