Tag: CA Assoc of Medical Product Suppliers (CAMPS)
Industry pushes through carve out for complex rehab
February 9, 2023HME News Staff
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – NCART and the California Association of Medical Product Suppliers have scored several wins in California around a 10% rate reduction for Medi-Cal for CRT that was eliminated in the 2021-22 Budget Act and was effective Jan. 1, 2022. Though the California Department of Healthcare Services submitted the State Plan Amendment to make the change, it had still not been implemented or had any retroactive adjustments on claims paid since Jan. 1, 2022. DHCS has said a 10% cut for...
California budget contains wins for HME
July 7, 2022HME News Staff
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California’s recently passed $308 billion budget includes several positive changes for home medical equipment.
Those changes:
It makes permanent the 100% of Medicare for all respiratory equipment and supplies that was established by the Department of Health and Children’s Services during the PHE;
Eliminates the 10% cut on all DME and CGMs; and
Eliminates the 10% cut for orthotic devices on July 1, 2022, or when federal approval...
CAMPS seeks input on managed care transition
April 12, 2022HME News Staff
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The California Association of Medical Product Suppliers (CAMPS) and the University of California, San Francisco, have launched a survey to collect provider experiences on the state’s transition to a Medi-Cal Managed Care Plan for California Children’s Services (CCS). Anonymous results from the survey, which should only take three to five minutes to complete, will be shared with the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS). In 2018, DHCS instituted...
Medi-Cal to temporarily boost reimbursement rates
February 26, 2021Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – California’s Department of Health Care Services has reversed plans to reduce reimbursement for oxygen concentrators 40% and will instead increase rates until the end of the public health emergency.
DHCS has submitted a waiver to CMS to increase the reimbursement rate for respiratory equipment from 80% to 100% of Medicare rural rates and eliminate a 10% clawback. Those rates will be retroactive to March 2020,...
Providers feel burned in California
September 6, 2019Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - California's Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, may find itself in a bind for HME providers if a drastic reimbursement cut goes through as planned, say industry stakeholders.To comply with the 21st Century Cures Act, the Department of Health Care Services has proposed paying 80% of Medicare's non-rural fee schedule amounts for most DME. For providers in the state, who are currently reimbursed at the 2016 Medicare fee schedule amounts, that's a cut of up to 60%. “From what I'm...
California providers get 'best of both worlds'
February 25, 2015HME News Staff
LAS VEGAS - The California Association of Medical Product Suppliers has finalized several state-specific sessions for Medtrade Spring as part of its agreement to co-locate its annual conference at the show. “Before the co-location agreement, many CAMPS members were trying to decide, 'Do I go to the CAMPS show or Medtrade Spring?'” said Tony Myrell, president of CAMPS and owner of Premier Medical Equipment in Colton, Calif. “They will now get the best of both worlds.” The sessions...
CAMPS co-locates at Medtrade Spring
September 26, 2014HME News Staff
LAS VEGAS - The California Association of Medical Product Suppliers (CAMPS) will co-locate its annual meeting with Medtrade Spring in 2015. The events will take place March 30-April 1 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas. “This co-location agreement saves CAMPS members time and money by allowing them to go to one trade show instead of two,” stated Kevin Gaffney, group show director, Medtrade, in a press release. CAMPS and Medtrade had a similar agreement a decade ago. CAMPS...
This could be scary
June 22, 2009Liz Beaulieu, Editor
The California Department of Health Services recently announced a pilot program to contract DME. The department's first target: adult, non-powered wheelchairs, according to Bob Achermann, executive director of the California Association of Medical Product Suppliers (CAMPS).
The state seeks to contract directly with manufacturers to determine a fair acquisition price on DME and then offer providers that price plus a markup, Achermann.
While a number of states have contracted supplies like adult diapers,...