Legislative Issues 

North Carolina’s seniors and patients of all ages demand unfettered access to home health care equipment. H.R. 3790 is the pro-patient access legislation our state’s current and future residents sorely need.

A truly bi-partisan bill in Congress proactively corrects flaws in the Federal government’s restrictive DMEPOS bidding program implemented in 2008, limiting bidding for Medicare related services and medical equipment. Rather than federalizing the home medical equipment industry and reducing patient choice, H.R. 3790 takes a practical approach to ensuring patient access to quality providers while saving taxpayers money.

The bill reduces Medicare reimbursements to home medical equipment providers while allowing qualified, licensed home medical providers in North Carolina and across the country to compete on a level playing field with unlicensed, unproven vendors, providing our seniors and patients in need with access to the HME providers they know and trust.

Although support for H.R. 3790 is growing, and every member of our state’s congressional delegation has information on this issue, all 13 North Carolina districts need to hear from concerned residents and business owners. If you want your voice to be heard, click on the link below for a press release on the subject which you can use to inform your friends, neighbors, customers and especially your elected officials about this important issue. To see if your representative has signed on click here to be directed to the restrictive DMEPOS Federal bidding program information page.

If you are unsure of who represents you, please call 202-224-3121 or you may visit AAHomecare's Action Center or VGM's DC Link.