We need to fix this mess for the folks who have nothing to fall back on. Any savings could be wiped out by poor planning---and not even our own! So people need to, literally, call their Congressman and Senators and tell then to stop the current program and support the alternative, HR1717. Or, at le...

The Medicare site says I will be in the competitive bid area this summer. But they have been wrong a lot lately. The provider list for my city has only TWO providers listed; and one does NOT sell ANY CPAP stuff. Guess who the other one is? Apria. The Competitive Bidding Program will be a train wrec...

The difference between a Participating Provider and a Non-Participating Provider is that the Paricipating Provider must accept Medicare's allowable as the most money they can collect from Medicare and the Patient. So, any monies paid by Medicare+co-payment/deductibles= the Medicare allowable. A Non-...

If your current supplier did not win a bid for CPAP underTraditional Medicare, they can still be your supplier as long as there are open rental months on your CPAP (up to month 13). Your may also receive supplies from the "grandfathered" supplier until all rentals are billed. Once the 13th billing i...