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Bill Popomaronis, R.Ph., NCPA vice president, home health and long term care pharmacy services, provides his thoughts and explanations on the latest DME information from CMS.


Thursday, April 17, 2008

Why It’s So Hard! Why It’s So Important to Independents!

The next time someone asks you why being an NCPA member is important, or why supporting NCPAPAC or the LDF is critical to your business margins, or why it is so hard to get Congress to make our legislation a priority in the face of competing interests, you can cite the info in this article:
  • Health care interests spend more on federal lobbying ($445 million) than any other sector of the economy ($2.8 B total in 2007).
  • In terms of specific organizations or companies, the number three spender was PhRMA (tied with AMA at $22.1 million). Number one was the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which paid its in-house and outside lobbyists $53 million.

posted by dme alert service @ 7:17 AM 

Bayer HealthCare, Diabetes Care, has underwritten the costs of this communication. The information expressed in this communication are the views of NCPA. Bayer is not responsible for the accuracy of the information expressed in this communication. Any questions related to DME Accreditation and/or Competitive Bidding for DMEPOS should be directed to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services or NCPA.