Below is a speech delivered by Robert Brant, owner of City Medical Services in North Miami Beach, Florida and President of AMEPA. He attended the Program Advisory and Oversight Committee (PAOC) Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland yesterday, where all aspects of the initial implementation of Medicare's Bidding Program were discussed.

His speech was the clearest delivery of the message that contract awardees and non awardees understand, the program created is restricting patient access, killing companies and is unsustainable.

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Buena Park, CA - Over 70 HME Providers, manufacturer's representatives, oxygen patients and other industry advocates attended the Southern California Rally for HR-3790 hosted by AMEPA and the California Association of Medical Product Suppliers (CAMPS).

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"Medicare told me they resolved the problems from last year's competitive bidding program, but if you hear differently at the PAOC meeting, I want to know about it"

That's what Congresswoman Ginny Brown-Waite (R-Lake County, FL), who serves on the Health Subcommittee of Ways and Means told me on Wednesday afternoon during a meeting in her Washington office.

Unfortunately for her constituents in the round one Orlando MSA, little has changed. The Competitive Bidding program in DMEPOS is still a bid without financial accountability that will still allow unqualified companies to low ball bid to achieve their goal: not the ability to continue serving patients, but to sell their company after winning the bid.

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Attendee at the PAOC meeting, happening today in Baltimore, MD

This morning at the PAOC meeting in Baltimore, CMS released a tentatitive timeline which announced that Competitive Bidding would not be implemented until January 2011. This is a surprise and relief for the industry which anticipated a rush to apply the first round MSA's by the Spring/Summer of 2010

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