CMS Expands Competitive Bidding To Include Insulin Pumps, More CPAP Areas

The US Medicare agency will expand its competitive bidding program for durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics and supplies (DMEPOS) to include insulin pumps, and will add 10 new competitive bidding areas for continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) devices. Many device suppliers, as well as Trump’s HHS Secretary-nominee Tom Price, oppose the bidding program.

CMS is expanding its durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics and supplies (DMEPOS) competitive bidding program in 2019 to add insulin pumps and supplies to the list of DMEPOS covered, and to add 10 new competitive bidding areas for the program for continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) devices, the agency announced Jan. 31.

Mandated by the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2013, the competitive bidding program sets the amount Medicare...

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