Tuesday, April 07, 2009
By Steve Twedt, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Medicare's plans to bring competitive bidding to durable medical equipment procurement actually will reduce competition and limit access to needed wheelchairs, oxygen tanks and other vital equipment, a group of suppliers say.
They also believe that the program, set to begin locally in less than two weeks, will end up costing more after big suppliers grab a larger and larger market share, freeing them to then raise their prices.
"You wind up with a government-created oligarchy," said John Shirvinsky, executive director for the Pennsylvania Association of Medical Suppliers, yesterday in Green Tree.....
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