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Going, Going, Not Sold?

Published Saturday, March 01, 2008

Since the passage of the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003, industry experts have been advising DMEPOS providers to become accredited. But with a recent statement by CMS that only 30 percent of providers are accredited, we wonder why people have been waiting. In 2005 and 2006, providers said they were waiting to find out who the recognized accreditors would be. The accreditors were announced in November of 2006, but still they waited. At that time, many stated the reason for their delay was that they wanted to see where the first 10 MSAs selected for competitive bidding would ...

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