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Home Respiratory Leaders Submit Testimony to E&C Health Subcommittee for Hearing on COVID-19 Long Haul Impacts
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…
Industry Leaders Applaud Removal of Budget Neutrality for Oxygen
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…
Time to Breathe Easier?
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…
CQRC Urges CMS to Finalize DMEPOS Rule
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…