Competitive Bidding


VIDEO - Invacare Outlines Bidding Preparation

Medtrade presentation with Mixon, Bachenheimer discusses how providers can prepare for NCB Round Two.

Editor's Note

It’s the Smart Play

While a bidding repeal is everyone’s first option, the MPP is our surest bet.

Industry Groups Back Market-Based Alternative to Bidding

Letter to Congress urging replacement to competitive bidding show growing industry unity.

Senior Lawmakers Call for Scrutiny of NCB

Appropriations Committee leaders task GAO with a comprehensive review of bid program.

NCB Will Force Community Pharmacies to Drop Diabetic Supplies

NCPA survey confirms that cuts from bid program will cause a mass exodus by community pharmacies.

HR-1041 Notches 6 More Backers

Bid repeal bill at 156 cosponsors as Congress approaches recess.

VGM Bidding Seminars Underway

Series of two-day events aims to give attendees the “ins and outs” of Round Two of competitive bidding.

Competitive Bidding Crossroads

Business Solutions

Competitive Bidding Crossroads

The industry finds itself at a crossroads when it comes to the fight against competitive bidding. The toxic program clearly needs to be repealed, but the current political environment might not be hospitable to that proposal. Can the industry live with a middle ground solution?

power mobility providers

Business Solutions

Solving the Power Mobility Puzzle

The removal of the first-month purchase option has forever changed the standard power mobility industry? How have they fared since implementation? What does the HHS Office of Inspector General’s recently increased efforts to call mobility funding into question portend?

Respiratory providers competitive bidding

Respiratory and Sleep Funding Outlook

School of Hard Knocks

If Round Two wasn’t on respiratory providers’ radar, it probably is now, making it a good time to look at the recent past to peer into the near future.



Disease Management

Disease Management

Hard Decisions

To HME providers and the industry as a whole, disease management has become a casualty of cuts, caps and competitive bidding.

Editor's Note

The Ultimate Bottom Line

If you believe that middle America is the true engine of the economic growth, then it is imperative that those residing in that economic sweet spot need to be regularly and gainfully employed so that they can invest back into the economy.

MedPAC Proposes Additional HME Cuts

Reimbursement reductions part of $230 billion plan to cover doc fix.

MED Group Launches Competitive Bidding Institute

Fifty-city seminar series on NCB preparation is open to anyone.

Observation Deck:

The NCB Focus Now Changes

The proposed market-based replacement solves multiple problems.

AAHomecare Unveils Market-Based Pricing Model

Association proposes program as a replacement for Medicare’s competitive bidding program.

Observation Deck:

NCB vs. Jobs

A letter to the President reminding him that the job-killing competitive bidding program runs counter to his job-growth program.

Interstate Bid Areas Pose Round 2 Problems

Large bidding areas add possibly insurmountable layers of complexity, including potential interstate trade issues.

N.C. Providers Rally for Jobs During President Obama Visit

Providers urge President to recognize expansion of CMS's bid program will kill jobs.

H.R. 1041 Picks up 5 More Backers

House competitive bidding repeal bill now up to 150 co-sponsors.

HME Business Podcast