Healthcare Costs

American HomePatient comments on Medicare plans to lower fee

Published in Pharma Law Weekly, September 13th, 2005

American HomePatient, Inc., (AHOM) expressed concerns regarding the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) proposed Medicare regulation issued August 1, 2005, which discussed the dispensing fee paid for providing nebulized inhalation drug therapy.

The company believes that CMS intends to lower the dispensing fee, beginning January 1, 2006.

As stated last year in comments to CMS, the company remains concerned that without an adequate dispensing fee to offset the drastic cuts in reimbursement for the drugs that began January 1, 2005, many beneficiaries would be faced with an access problem "because few suppliers, if any, will be able to...

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Source: Pharma Law Weekly (2005-09-13)

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