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Full description:

The new Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) includes provisions to expand Round 2 of the Competitive Bidding program to an additional 21 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) and requires all products subject to bidding under the existing program to be provided at bid prices nationwide by 2016.

With the recently released Round 1 bid amounts scheduled to be implemented in 2011 and the Round 2 bid window set to open next spring, Competitive Bidding is moving full speed with almost no signs of stopping.

During this webinar, Andrea Stark will discuss what all DMEPOS suppliers need to know about the Competitive Bidding program, even if you don’t win a contract or plan to bid.

Attendees will be able to submit questions throughout the course and time will be allotted to ask live questions at the end of the event.

Intended audience:

DMEPOS Suppliers

What you will learn:

Topics to be covered include:

• Round 1 Single Payment Amounts and Bid Winners (as released by CMS)
• Affected Products, MSAs and Implementation Deadlines
• What to Expect in Round 2
• Your Options if you Don’t Win a Bid Contract
• Whether You can Keep Your Current Patients Under the Bid Program
• Stipulations and Requirements for Servicing Patients who Live in or Travel to Competitive Bid Areas (CBAs)
• The Effects of Competitive Bidding on Oxygen
• The Potential for a National Bid on Mail-Order Supplies
• The Likelihood and Cost of Repealing the Program Entirely

Technical requirements: • Hardware: Pentium III+, 256 MB RAM, DSL or cable modem • Operating System: Microsoft Windows 2000®, Windows XP®, Windows Server 2003®, Windows Vista®, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 • Browser: Internet Explorer 6.0 or 7.0, Firefox 3.01 or later • Java: Sun Java 1.4.2_06, 1.5.0_06, 1.5.0_10, 1.6.0_01 or later • JavaScript and Cookies: Must be enabled. • Flash: Version 9.0 or higher (You may download a free version of Adobe Flash using the link below. http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash)