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Article: Patients, Physicians, and Providers Oppose Cuts to Medicare Home Oxygen Therapy in 2008 Budget.
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- February 5, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, a group of organizations representing home oxygen therapy patients, physicians, home oxygen providers, and oxygen system manufacturers issued a statement opposing provisions in the President's proposed 2008 budget that would threaten the home oxygen therapy benefit in Medicare.
The group, which includes the American Association for Homecare, the National Association for Medical Direction of Respiratory Care, and National Home Oxygen Patients Association, strongly objects to a proposal in the 2008 budget that would force Medicare patients to assume the burden of owning and managing medical oxygen equipment ...