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Reduction in Patient Access to DMEPOS
Inside the Numbers
Ten percent of patients account for 65 percent of the nation’s health care expenditures.1
Percentage of individuals who sustained a traumatic brain injury due to a fall.
If treated with proper equipment the comorbidity epidemic can be reduced.
30% drop in percentage of CRT providers from 2012-2014. Resulting in a 40 percent reduction of CRT provider locations throughout the U.S.
Number of dollars saved for every dollar CMS spends on mobility DME.2
U.S. Rehab asks CMS to stop, review,
and study the delivery system to stabilize the process.
1National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation, Concentration of Health Spending Among Highest Spenders, 2013. 2Brian Leitten, How America Can Cut Waste, Save Billions & Improve Healthcare, (2017).
being served appropriately.”
Packer worked with VGM’s John Gallagher, Mark
Higley and Tom Powers on the white paper, which VGM is making available for anyone in the industry to use (download it for free at https://www.usrehab.com/ government-relations). “Our hope,” Packer said, “was to get the information at your fingertips so you didn’t have to go out and do a lot of research.”
The white paper is very readable, and at seven pages in length, is a valuable and viable “leave-behind” for policy-makers to study again later.
“This paper will be something that they can use in any instance,” Packer said. “There’s a lot of issues out there, and it brings them all to culmination so you can actually talk about them quickly and concisely.”
Even better, Packer said he’s working on additional white papers on such topics as K0009 manual chairs and ultralight titanium funding.
“We’re going to do some specific papers,” Packer confirmed. “I’m going to drill down into several areas before the end of the year.” m
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INFOGRAPHIC COURTESY U.S. REHAB/THE VGM GROUP