DME: New Deadline Disappoints Accreditation Advocates
Ante up -- or lose Medicare payments
Suppliers of durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics and supplies (DMEPOS) now have a firm date for mandatory accreditation -- and more deadlines are looming.Definite: If you are an existing Medicare-certified DMEPOS supplier with a provider number, you must achieve accredited status no later than Sept. 30, 2009. Fail to and your provider number will be revoked, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) stressed at a special DME Open Door Forum on Dec. 19. More than 750 callers dialed into the forum.Uncertain: At the forum, CMS failed to pin...
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