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Bill to Eliminate Competitive Bidding Gains Sponsors

Posted 01-06-2010 at 02:51 PM by AndreaStark
Updated 01-06-2010 at 02:54 PM by AndreaStark
H.R. 3790, a bill to eliminate the Competitive Bidding program now has 118 co-sponsors.

H.R. 3790 was introduced by Rep. Meek (D-FL) on October 13, 2009 and has been dubbed the Meek Bill. If passed, the bill would effectively repeal the Competitive Bidding program and terminate the contracts of any bid winners.

To keep itself budget neutral, H.R. 3790 proposes two separate cuts in the consumer price index. The first cut of -0.25% would affect all DME except for Group...
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CMS Changes Mind - Billing NOT Retroactive for Voluntary Termination

Posted 01-06-2010 at 02:37 PM by AndreaStark
Updated 01-06-2010 at 02:55 PM by AndreaStark
DME suppliers who did not meet surety bond or accreditation deadlines were advised to voluntarily terminate their billing numbers to prevent being suspended from the Medicare program for a period of one year. Those suppliers who submitted a voluntary termination request did so with the understanding that billing privileges would be reinstated once they met all Medicare billing requirements and billing would be retroactive to the date of accreditation.

However, CMS recently threw a...
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Thinking Lean: The Power of Standardized Work Practices

Posted 01-06-2010 at 06:58 AM by ChrisCalderone
Updated 01-06-2010 at 03:06 PM by ChrisCalderone
Thinking Lean: The Power of Standardized Work Practices

By Chris Calderone, MA, MBA

Standardized work practices have long been in place in many manufacturing businesses. The standard
work practice concept is a part of the lean thinking approach to process improvement. Lean thinking is a
quality focused concept that concentrates improvement initiatives within the workflow in an effort to
identify and drive out waste and variability within processes. One
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