Tag: Missouri
Missouri Medicaid to require firesafe cannulas
February 5, 2025HME News Staff
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Missouri’s Medicaid program, MO HealthNet, is now requiring DME oxygen providers to supply firesafe cannula valves to program participants, according to news reports.
The requirement, supported by representatives with the Springfield Fire Department, the Battlefield Fire District and the International Association of Fire Chiefs, went into effect Jan. 1 but will take time to implement across the state, according to the Springfield Daily Citizen.
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Provider branches into Missouri
January 21, 2015HME News Staff
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. - Alpha 3 Medical Equipment has opened its first location here. The company offers home medical and respiratory equipment and supplies. Alpha 3 has been in business more than 10 years and has additional locations in southern Illinois.
Missouri
July 22, 2010Liz Beaulieu, Editor
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - The state's Medicaid program made the following offer to HME providers in June: Come up with a way to slash $4.8 million from your budget and we won't reduce reimbursement to 80% of the Medicare allowable.
Providers knew a deal when they saw one. They proceeded to propose cutting reimbursement for stationary oxygen concentrators to $90 per month and increasing reimbursement for portable oxygen concentrators to $150 per month, a move that would cut about $2.5 million from its...