{"id":3323,"date":"2016-03-15T21:15:07","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T01:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.appliedpolicy.com\/staging\/7403\/?p=3323"},"modified":"2021-06-22T11:48:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T16:48:08","slug":"cms-cuts-reimbursement-for-diabetic-test-strips-by-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appliedpolicy.com\/staging\/7403\/cms-cuts-reimbursement-for-diabetic-test-strips-by-20\/","title":{"rendered":"CMS Cuts Reimbursement for Diabetic Test Strips by 20%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 15, 2016 CMS announced the payment rates for seven product categories in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.appliedpolicy.com\/staging\/7403\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/23_Fact_Sheet_R2RC_CBAs.pdf\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3325\">90 Competitive Bidding Areas<\/a>\u00a0throughout the country.\u00a0 In addition, CMS also announced the payment rates for the National Mail Order Program for Diabetic Supplies.\u00a0 CMS will begin offering contracts to suppliers who submitted bids and CMS will\u00a0announce the list of suppliers this spring.\u00a0 The new contracts will go into effect July 1, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The National Mail Order Program for Diabetic Supplies sets the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.appliedpolicy.com\/staging\/7403\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/23_R2RC_SPA_National_MailOrder_Recompete.pdf\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3326\">Single Price Amount<\/a>\u00a0for glucose test strips and the other testing supplies diabetic patients use regularly.\u00a0 All eight items in the program saw a reduction in reimbursement amounts with test strips dropping from $10.41 a box to $8.32.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.appliedpolicy.com\/staging\/7403\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/03-15-16-Fact-Sheet-DMEPOS-Competitive-Bidding-SPA.pdf\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3326\">Click here<\/a> for the CMS Fact Sheet.<\/p>\n<p>For additional information about the competitive bidding program please contact me at <a href=\"mailto:Jvoorhees@apliedpolicy.com\">Jvoorhees@apliedpolicy.com<\/a> or call 202-558-5272.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 15, 2016 CMS announced the payment rates for seven product categories in 90 Competitive Bidding Areas\u00a0throughout the country.\u00a0 In addition, CMS also announced the payment rates for the National Mail Order Program for Diabetic Supplies.\u00a0 CMS will begin offering contracts to suppliers who submitted bids and CMS will\u00a0announce the list of suppliers this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","ap4_related_services":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[431],"tags":[16,17,18,20,21,23,25,26],"class_list":["post-3323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicare-reimbursement","tag-astrazeneca","tag-bristol-meyers-squib","tag-centers-for-medicare-medicaid-services","tag-dme-competitive-bidding","tag-mannkind","tag-medtronic","tag-novo-nordisk","tag-sanofi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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