Homecare Stakeholders Present Recommendations To CMS Administrator Kerry Weems, USA

Senator Arlen Specter (R-Pa.), the American Association for Homecare, other homecare stakeholders held a meeting with Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Kerry Weems. The meeting focused on Medicare program integrity, power mobility issues, the new competitive acquisition program, and home oxygen therapy.

Tyler J. Wilson, president of the American Association for Homecare, commented after the meeting, "We talked about our frustration that CMS has not taken more measures to strengthen program integrity in Medicare and to stem fraud at the front-end. We told the Administrator that we want to collaborate to prevent fraud from happening in the first place."