South Carolina spares some products from cuts
By HME News Staff
Updated Thu June 27, 2019
COLUMBIA, S.C. - Medicaid officials in South Carolina announced this week that the state would exempt certain product categories from reimbursement cuts when it adjusts rates to mirror Medicare's non-rural rates, according to AAHomecare. Those categories are: oxygen, PAP and supplies, ventilators, nebulizers, enteral, hospital beds, wheelchairs and certain wheelchair accessories. Medicaid officials, the South Carolina Medical Equipment Services Association and AAHomecare have worked together in recent months to minimize the impact of the proposed changes. "SCMESA is most appreciative of the work of Laura Williard and David Chandler of AAHomecare with the South Carolina Medicaid program relating to reimbursement rates for DME," said Bobby Horton, executive director of SCMESA. "Laura's efforts on behalf of South Carolina DME providers, working alongside our Medicaid Relations Committee, have been very effective in minimizing rate decreases, while a majority of codes will realize increasing reimbursement rates.” Of the 989 DME HCPCS codes on the South Carolina Medicaid fee schedule, 568 will increase, 188 will decrease and 233 codes will stay the same.
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