General News

BALTIMORE – CMS will kick off phase 2 of the Provider Enrollment, Chain, and Ownership System (PECOS) on May 1, it announced March. 1.

MINNEAPOLIS – A federal judge may have granted the government’s request to dismiss a competitive bidding-related lawsuit filed against CMS by a specialty HME provider, but that doesn’t mean he thinks justice was served.

LANSING, Mich. – A new report has found that computer system errors led Michigan’s Department of Community Health to make millions of dollars in Medicaid overpayments, and now HME providers are wondering how the state's recoupment efforts will affect them.

WASHINGTON – Is there a way to make the audit process more efficient and effective for home medical equipment providers? AAHomecare is on a mission to find out.