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HME Industry Testifies to Congress: Competitive Bidding Will Hurt Small Providers

Published Thursday, November 01, 2007

WASHINGTON While CMS' Laurence Wilson presented the agency's view of competitive bidding, a string of HME stakeholders told an entirely different story to members of a House of Representatives subcommittee late last month. Representing the American Association for Homecare, Georgie Blackburn testified before the House Small Business Committee's Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight Oct. 31 that unless Congress modifies the program, competitive bidding for HME will hurt small providers and “undermine the nation's home care infrastructure.” The program will “jeopardize patients' standard of care, choice of provider and access to the medical equipment and services they need,” said ...

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