As the government prepares to roll out a program in 10 markets for medical equipment suppliers to bid on Medicare contracts, witnesses at a Congressional hearing expressed concern about the next stage ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has reopened bids for durable medical equipment suppliers in a “round-one rebid” for its competitive bidding program for DME, prosthetics, orthotics and ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have announced plans to expand the controversial competitive bidding program for medical devices which has to this point been a pilot project. The ...

WASHINGTON – Ignoring months of protests, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced in late August the next steps for a major expansion of a competitive bidding program designed to ...

Three years after results from a study in Diabetes Care revealed how flaws in CMS’ Competitive Bidding Program endangered Medicare patients who rely on supplies to test their blood glucose, the ...

A trade group representing medical equipment manufacturers and suppliers is suing the Bush administration, seeking to block the implementation of a competitive bidding program for their products. The ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services claim their new competitive bidding program has not resulted in any changes in beneficiary health outcomes. But CMS’s observations differ significantly ...

Economists and trade groups are shifting into high gear in their years-long fight against a controversial Medicare bidding process that they say is overrun with operational problems but that federal ...

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