Durable Medical Equipment Competitive Bidding Demonstration. Final Report:Options for Medicare Reimbursement of Durable Medical Equipment

摘要

The report summarizes five years of work examining Medicare reimbursement policyand prospects for future directions. It begins by reviewing the major policy objectives of Medicare as a public insurer. It then discusses the success and failure of the past durable medical equipment (DME) reimbursement methodologies in meeting these goals, as well as the potential value of alternative reimbursement approaches not yet tried.