Strategies to Support Dually Eligible Individuals Access to DMEPOS

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released an Informational Bulletin to provide another strategy for states to better support timely access to durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, and supplies (DMEPOS) for people dually eligible for Medicaid and Medicare. Both Medicare and Medicaid cover DMEPOS, which can be essential to dually eligible individuals’ mobility, health status, independence in the community, and overall quality of life. This Informational Bulletin provides an additional strategy to those included in the Informational Bulletin released in January 2017 in which we described several strategies to increase access to DMEPOS for dually eligible individuals.

The Information Bulletin is available here: https://www.medicaid.gov/federal-policy-Guidance/index.html.

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