tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2003 Issue 40

DME: SUPPLIER-NUMBER FREEZE DEVASTATES DME PROVIDERS

Earliest issuances slated for Nov. 1, for lucky few.  Durable medical equipment suppliers waiting on a supplier number held up in the power wheelchair fraud-related moratorium had better be ready to wait a while longer. The absolute earliest any supplier numbers will come through will be Nov. 1, and those will be eyeballed by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Tom Scully himself. If suppliers don't qualify for one of those few Nov. 1 exceptions, they can expect the normal supplier number process to resume Jan. 1, Scully said in an Oct. 7 Open Door Forum for...

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