Medicare Competitive Bidding Program Overview
Medicare’s competitive bidding program is a program intended to lower the cost and reduce beneficiary co-pays of covered medical products in the nine competitive bidding areas.
Currently, these changes affect the areas below:
- Cincinnati-Middletown (Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana)
- Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor (Ohio)
- Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord (North Carolina and South Carolina)
- Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington (Texas)
- Kansas City (Missouri and Kansas)
- Miami-Fort Lauderdale- Pompano Beach (Florida)
- Orlando - Kissimmee (Florida)
- Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania)
- Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario (California)
If you are in one of the above areas, you will be required to utilize a Medicare-approved supplier for your medical equipment needs.
Only those providers who have been offered and signed an official contract with CMS will be available to provide certain medical equipment products in your area.
According to CMS, suppliers that represented the local, competitive marketplace and met Medicare’s exacting requirements were selected. “We are pleased that Medicare beneficiaries … will continue to receive high quality service and supplies from the suppliers who were awarded contracts,” said CMS Administrator Donald Berwick, M.D. “Each of these contract suppliers has met our stringent standards, so beneficiaries can be assured they will receive their equipment and supplies from legitimate and quality suppliers at prices that are more in line with the current market.”
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1. We are America’s Leading Provider of Power Chairs and Scooters
The SCOOTER Store has helped over 600,000 people nationwide
We are America’s leading provider of power mobility and have helped more people regain their freedom and independence with a power chair or scooter—more than any other power mobility provider in the country. This means you can't find anyone more experienced in helping you get the right solution for your mobility needs. We have been awarded contracts for power mobility, complex rehab chairs, and hospital beds in all nine competitive bidding areas. Additionally, we have won contracts for oxygen in four competitive bidding areas.
With the creation of our Home Care Equipment Division, we are ready to provide our same level of quality service to these additional product areas.
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In this period of significant Medicare changes, you can rely on the longevity and stability of The SCOOTER Store to fulfill your mobility prescriptions. You don’t need to worry that we’ll be gone should you need service. You don’t even need to worry about whether you live inside or outside the competitive bid boundaries: you can rely on The SCOOTER Store in either situation.
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