Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428937218
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Medicare past experience can guide future competitive bidding for medical equipment and supplies : report to congressional committees.
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428937218
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Medicare
Author: United States Government Accountability OfficePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781978452909
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Medicare: Past Experience Can Guide Future Competitive Bidding for Medical Equipment and Supplies
Medicare
Author: United States. Government Accountability OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Letting of contracts
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Medicare: Issues for Manufacturer-Level Bidding for Durable Medical Equipment
Author: Kathleen M. KingPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437988490
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
In 2009, Medicare spent approx. $8.1 billion on durable medical equipment (DME), prosthetics, orthotics, and related supplies for 10.6 million beneficiaries. DME includes items such as wheelchairs, hospital beds, and walkers. Medicare beneficiaries typically obtain DME items from suppliers, who submit claims for payment for these items to Medicare on behalf of beneficiaries. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency within the Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS), has responsibility for administering the Medicare program. Medicare and its beneficiaries -- through their out-of-pocket costs -- have sometimes paid higher than market rates for various medical equipment and supplies. To achieve Medicare savings for DME and to address DME fraud concerns, Congress required CMS to phase in a competitive bidding program (CBP) for DME suppliers in selected competitive bidding areas (CBA). In CBP, suppliers submit bid prices in the amounts they are willing to accept as payment to provide DME items to Medicare beneficiaries. CMS then enters into contracts with select DME suppliers to provide DME items at the prices determined by CBP. In contrast to CBP's supplier-level approach, some health care purchasers use a manufacturer-level approach to buy DME items directly from DME manufacturers to obtain savings by leveraging their purchasing power. CMS has not been required to develop a manufacturer-level approach. This report provides information on health care purchasers that currently use a manufacturer-level approach and on issues that would need to be addressed if CMS implemented such an approach. It describes (1) efforts used by some non- Medicare purchasers to reduce DME spending by contracting with DME manufacturers or using purchasing intermediaries, and (2) issues that CMS might face if required to implement a DME manufacturer-level approach with broad authority to do so. Figures and tables. This is a print on demand report.
Medicare: Competitive Bidding for Medical Equipment and Supplies Could Reduce Program Payments, But Adequate Oversight Is Critical
Author: Kathleen M. KingPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437905706
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Medicare has paid higher than market rates for medical equip. and supplies provided to beneficiaries under Medicare Part B. Medicare has used fee schedules based on historical charges to set payment amounts. But this approach lacks flexibility to keep pace with market changes and increases costs to the fed. gov¿t. CMS is required to test competitive bidding as a new way to set payments. CMS did this through a demonstration in two locations in which suppliers could compete on the basis of price and other factors for the right to provide their products. This testimony describes the effects that competitive bidding could have on Medicare program payments and suppliers and the need for adequate oversight to ensure quality and access. Illustrations.
Medicare
Author: United States. Government Accountability OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical instruments and apparatus industry
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Medicare's DMEPOS Competitive Bidding Program
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on HealthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Gao-04-765 Medicare
Author: United States Government Accountability OfficePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781984278654
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
GAO-04-765 Medicare: Past Experience Can Guide Future Competitive Bidding for Medical Equipment and Supplies
Medicare more effective screening and stronger enrollment standards needed for medical equipment suppliers : report to the Chairman, Committee on Finance, U.S. Senate.
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428933573
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 53
Book Description
Reforming Medicare
Author: Henry AaronPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0815701500
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Everyone agrees on the need to reform Medicare but not on how to do it. Some argue the program is too comprehensive, others that it is not comprehensive enough. Some suggest it pays too much for health care, others, too little. Meanwhile, the financial stakes continue to mount. Medicare spending exceeded $400 billion in 2007, making it more expensive than the entire health systems of most other nations, as well as the largest national public program other than Social Security and national defense. In R eforming Medicare, Henry J. Aaron and Jeanne M. Lambrew deftly guide readers through this complex debate. They identify and analyze the three leading approaches to reform. Updated social insurance would retain the current system while rationalizing coverage and reducing bureaucracy. Premium support would replace the current system with a capped, per-person payment that beneficiaries could use to buy health insurance. Consumer-directed Medicare would have beneficiaries pay for care up to a high deductible from government- supported savings accounts and offer premium-support coverage above the deductible. In addition to rating each option on its ability to promote access to health care, improve the quality of care, and control costs, the authors evaluate each reform's political strengths and weaknesses. Given the heat generated by the Medicare debate, it is unlikely that any single approach will be implemented in full. Consequently, Aaron and Lambrew describe incremental strategies that blend elements of each plan. Their analysis provides essential insight into the types of hybrid policies that Congress will consider in coming years.
