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Hearing + Fly-In Puts Pressure On

May 22, 2008 - Source: HME Today

Combine more than 160 home care advocates with a House hearing on competitive bidding this week, and it adds up to considerable pressure. For Julie Weidemann, it was a rare opportunity to testify before the Subcommittee on Rural and Urban Entrepreneurship, which convened to examine the first round competitive bidding process. “Subcommittee Chairman Rep Heath Shuler (D-NC) [pictured, left] really understood the gist of what we were getting at,” said Weidemann, director of Iowa-based Palmer Home Medical. “If my company has to take a 26% reduction [if CMS applied an inherent reasonableness standard on the whole industry], I’ll have no choice but to decrease the level of service I currently provide. And what is going to happen to those patients in outlying areas?”


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