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Legislative Update – Urge Reps to Sign On to Letter
March 24, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – Reps Glenn Thompson (R-Pa) [pictured] and Bruce Braley (D-Iowa) have drafted a strongly worded letter to CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner citing problems with Medicare’s bidding program for HME. The letter asks CMS to r
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Medtrade Spring Musings – Out with the Old, in with the New
March 24, 2014
LAS VEGAS – I can honestly say I have been part of one of the most exciting, invigorating, and progressive events in history. My guess is a lot of you can make the same claim. I’m talking about the explosion of optimism that was Medtrade Spri
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Captured Opinions from Medtrade Spring and the VGM Survey
March 17, 2014
WATERLOO, IOWA – Medtrade and Medtrade Spring (which took place last week in Las Vegas) are great places to trade knowledge and opinions. Plenty of both were shared during Medtrade Spring, and on the vgm.com/survey site. The cost of delivering
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Medtrade Spring – AAHomecare Spreads the Word to a Packed House
March 17, 2014
LAS VEGAS – Tom Ryan knows the pain felt by many providers in today’s competitive bidding climate. As an NY-based provider, the president and CEO of AAHomecare told a packed house on day two of Medtrade Spring last week that he bid on 35 competit
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Legislative Update – VGM Web Link is One Option for Competitive Bidding Input
March 10, 2014
WATERLOO, IOWA – In response to CMS’ request for public comment regarding the expansion of the DMEPOS Competitive Bidding Program, VGM is asking providers to take a few moments to fill out an online survey at www.vgm.com/survey. 

 To sim
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Legislative Update – VGM Making It Easy to Respond to CMS Request for Competitive Bidding Input
March 3, 2014
WATERLOO, IOWA – In response to CMS’ request for public comment regarding the expansion of the DMEPOS Competitive Bidding Program, VGM is asking providers to take a few moments to fill out an online survey. To simplify the process of submitti