The lawsuit contended that CMS was not clear enough on the specifications to bid with the inclusion of financial information, thus many vendors were disqualified. There was no mention of how many potential and existing vendors were affected other than the one vendor who filed the suit, who stated without the opportunity to maintain or secure additional business that it was catastrophic to the point of crippling the company entirely. BD
U.S. District Judge for the District of Columbia Ricardo Urbina on Monday rejected a request for a preliminary injunction against a Medicare competitive bidding program for durable medical equipment, CongressDaily reports (Edney, CongressDaily, 6/30).
The program also will apply to additional product categories in future years. The program likely will result in an average 26% decrease in the prices of medical equipment in the 10 MSAs, according to CMS (Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, 6/12).
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