CareForward Alliance
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Advocating for Medicare beneficiaries to recieve the best, most innovative options possible.
Joined July 2025
Patients deserve access to the individualized medical equipment that meets their needs. @CMSGov 's 2026 Home Health rule threatens that access for those who depend on urological and ostomy devices every day to live their lives with dignity.
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This final rule sets forth routine updates to the Medicare home health payment rates in accordance with existing statutory and regulatory requirements. In addition, this final rule finalizes perman...
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Today’s decision by @CMSGov is deeply concerning for millions of Americans who rely on urological and ostomy devices. Read the full statement from CareForward Alliance here:
careforwardalliance.org
Saul Anuzis, CareForward Alliance: “It is disappointing to see CMS include urological and ostomy devices, as well as diabetes management devices in the 2026 Home Health rule. Every patient deserves...
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Time is ticking on the decision regarding the future of @MedicareGov's competitive bidding program. With patients, caregivers, and small medical device suppliers all at risk, members of Congress must speak out. The impact of this decision will be widely felt.
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As @CMSGov eyes another round of “competitive bidding,” patients are the ones who’ll pay the price. Limiting access to innovative medical devices means more hospital stays and worse outcomes. Congress and CMS must stop this from happening.
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Before expanding its reach, @CMSGov must fix the serious flaws in the competitive bidding system. Patients are facing severe risk, taxpayers are footing the bill, and accountability is nowhere to be found.
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“When CMS forces these products into a bidding war, the result will not be smarter spending. It will be lower-quality products, reduced access, and unnecessary suffering.” Read more from Jim Martin @60PlusAssoc , in @WashTimes on competitive bidding’s flaws:
washingtontimes.com
Nearly 20 years ago, I had the honor of helping to pass one of the most significant reforms to Medicare in its history: the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003.
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As Medicare beneficiaries and people with disabilities wait for a final decision on the rule change, @CMSGov should consider how these flaws will impact patients and taxpayers and look for another way forward.
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It also emphasizes that the median bid encourages gamesmanship of lowball bids to hurt competition.
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The brief highlights that the bidding process is biased towards awarding contracts that deliver low-cost and lower-quality medical equipment.
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A new brief from @PacificResearch 's Center for Medical Economics and Innovation says that proposed reforms to the next round of competitive bidding don’t fix fundamental flaws. Read more:
hmenews.com
SACRAMENTO – Proposed reforms to the next round of the competitive bidding program (CBP) for DMEPOS don’t go far enough to fix fundamental flaws, according to a new issue brief from the Center
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Expanding CMS’s Competitive Bidding Program is not just a threat to patients – it is a threat to American National Security. Former General James “Spider” Marks write in @StarsandStripes on the implications of this rule and how it hands China a strategic advantage over American
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Check out @hmeliz in @HME_News, where she highlights @CMSGov's latest expansion proposal as yet another way that the administration is threatening home-based care. https://t.co/4Xa2U98lDo
hmenews.com
CMS’s latest proposal to expand the competitive bidding program (CBP) to include ostomy, tracheostomy and urological supplies has sparked concern across the HME industry. But the issue goes far beyond
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Americans with disabilities and seniors on Medicare are deeply concerned about the impacts of competitive bidding if applied to urological and ostomy supplies. Disability advocates from across the country shared their stories: https://t.co/3gj4MhoFy8
careforwardalliance.org
Impact Across the country, Americans use individualized urology, ostomy, and tracheostomy products every day to manage their health, safety, and well being. For many, it took a long time, with much...
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“The expansion of competitive bidding into these specialized product areas would undermine patient care and the integrity of the free market. CMS should withdraw this proposal and work with stakeholders to design policies that respect economic principles and serve patients — not
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With a decision on the expansion of competitive bidding expected to come as early as October 31, alliance member @CASE_forAmerica urges CMS to keep individualized devices out of the program. https://t.co/aKGQmNhVqi
dcjournal.com
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services says its “Competitive Bidding Program” for medical equipment is designed to save taxpayers money.
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"CMS claims this move will cut costs and reduce fraud. But in practice, competitive bidding means reduced patient choice, jeopardized supply chains, and an incentive to push cheap, poorly made products that cause infections, sepsis, and lifelong health consequences."
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Read about the need for choice from disability advocates like Ali in Stat News. Ali has been using catheters for 15 years, and knows that cheaper alternatives won't meet her medical needs. https://t.co/z3ei1hdkc4
statnews.com
Competitive bidding for catheters means reduced patient choice, jeopardized supply chains, and an incentive to push cheap, poorly made products.
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“They [China] can offer rock-bottom prices because they do not follow the same safety or quality rules as American companies. Once CMS starts choosing suppliers based only on price, those Chinese imports will dominate bidding process.”
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