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Legislative Update – HME Audit Key Campaign Starts Now
June 9, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – In response to the out-of-control Medicare audit system, AAHomecare has launched its new HME Audit Key. According to AAHomecare officials, the HME Audit Key will “quantify the impacts of audits and present compelling data tha
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Does the Median Bid Scheme Violate the 5th Amendment?
June 9, 2014
BAYONNE, NJ – Many of you recently saw me on the New Jersey TV (NJTV) clip with my boss Michael Bologh, but this brief appearance only told a small part of my story. For years I have researched the haze of legal questions surrounding the biddin
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Congressman Wants to Know Your Bidding Woes – Deadline TODAY
June 2, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – It’s not too often that a member of Congress seeks out the complaints of HME providers, but this is one of those times. The deadline is TODAY (June 2). Rep Jim Renacci (R-Ohio), whose own oxygen business lost its bid in the r
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Legislative Update – 34 Senators Urge Review Prior to CB Expansion
May 26, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senators John Thune (R-South Dakota) [pictured], Robert Casey (D-Pennsylvania), and John Hoeven (R-North Dakota) led a bipartisan group of 34 Senators in sending a letter to CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner urging CMS to
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Making Our Case – Tracking a True Picture of Audit Activity
May 26, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – Between our work with Rep Renee Ellmers (R-NC) to introduce audit reform legislation, CMS officials being put on the spot at the House Ways & Means hearing last Tuesday, and the American Hospital Association suing HHS over
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Something Different in the Air
May 19, 2014
NEW BEDFORD, MA – I have travelled to Washington, DC, every year for the past 16 years, and I have to say there was something different in the air last week at the AAHomecare Washington Legislative Conference. Not surprisingly, there were