COMPETITIVE BIDDING: Bidding Tailored Toward Conventional Suppliers

Article Overview

This article explains concerns raised by small durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, and supplies suppliers, especially therapists and other direct health care providers, about Medicare competitive bidding. It focuses on how the proposed bidding approach may affect access, product selection, counseling, and billing in practice, and notes related advocacy activity and congressional attention. The piece is useful for DMEPOS suppliers, therapists, physicians, compliance staff, and billing professionals tracking Medicare competitive bidding policy.