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CQRC Calls For Clear Post-PHE Transition
WASHINGTON – With a “massive” number of patients starting on home respiratory therapy during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Council for Quality Respiratory Care is renewing its call for a transition period to ensure those patients don’t lose access when the public health emergency ends on May 11, says the Council for Quality Respiratory Care. While providers…
Medicare Should Protect Patient Access to Life Sustaining Home Respiratory Therapy After the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency Ends in May
To ensure continued access to home respiratory care, patients and providers urgently need a transition period and a clear, standardized template for demonstrating medical need WASHINGTON – Today the Council for Quality Respiratory Care – a coalition of the nation’s leading home respiratory therapy providers and manufacturing companies – called for greater steps to protect America’s…
CQRC Fears Lack Of Template Could Increase Denials
WASHINGTON — The Council for Quality Respiratory Care has expressed disappointment that the recently published local coverage determination for oxygen does not call for the use of a data-driven oxygen template when documenting medical need. Instead, the LCD, released on Nov. 18, continues to rely on the use of patient medical records, which the CQRC says can…
CQRC Disappointed Latest LCD on Supplemental Oxygen Fails to Adopt Clear, Objective Oxygen Template
WASHINGTON — The Council for Quality Respiratory Care (CQRC) – a coalition of the nation’s leading home oxygen therapy providers and manufacturing companies – today expressed disappointment that the latest Local Coverage Determination (LCD) for oxygen and oxygen equipment issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on November 18, does not call for the use…