The American Association for Homecare (AAH) filed a federal
lawsuit on June 9 seeking to block Medicare’s competitive bidding
program for durable medical equipment, prosthetics, and supplies
(DMEPOS). The bidding program, an arm of the Medicare Prescription
Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Action of 2003 (MMA), has a
July 1, 2008, implementation date in ten U.S. metropolitan
statistical areas (MSAs), including Charlotte, North Carolina;
Cincinnati, Ohio; Cleveland, Ohio; Dallas-Ft. Worth, Texas; Kansas
City, Missouri; Miami and Orlando, Florida; Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania; Riverside, California; and San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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