We're letting the signature rule be the straw that broke the camel's back.
We are notifying Medicare that we are voluntarily revoking our supplier number. We will be going strictly self pay for diabetic shoes. I spoke to another Medicare supplier that showed up in an article in HME News that terminated their supplier number. They provide a Medicare form that beneficiaries use to submit a claim directly to Medicare for an item that is a covered benefit.
The owner of this company says Medicare will moan and groan about paying claim but eventually will reimburse the beneficiary. But with the caveat that Medicare will NOT reimburse the same claim in future and tells beneficiary to find a Medicare supplier for item(s).
I thought that was an interesting strategy for Medicare employees to pull. Beneficiary lives in rural area that has no supplier but now has to drive 100 miles to access a covered item. Or a beneficiary lives in a community that has a supplier but supplier provides poor services or items that beneficiary does not like using. A non-Medicare company down the road sells item that meets the beneficiary's needs.
Medicare is going to beat up this beneficiary for getting what they want and need from a business that is not a supplier??? Where in the Medicare program does it say a beneficiary has to get services for a supplier? What paragraph is that written into law????
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