Oxygen-Equipment Suppliers Hope Price Helps Implement His Own Measure

Oxygen-equipment suppliers hope CMS uses an upcoming subregulatory measure to change a retroactive reimbursement policy to pay them more for equipment they supplied during the second half of last year. While a House lawmaker, HHS Secretary Tom Price introduced a bill, which is now law, that delayed for a year applying reimbursement rates that are based on bids in urban areas to areas of the country where there was no bidding. However, suppliers disagree with the way CMS implemented that...