Updates to Medicare Coverage of Durable Medical Equipment and Other Devices Webinar
Overview
Organization: US COPD Coalition
Start Date: 11/2020
End Date: 11/2020
Primary Goal: Goal 1: Empower people with COPD, their families, and caregivers to recognize and reduce the burden of COPD.
Secondary Goal(s):
Objective(s):
- Increase the effectiveness and variety of outreach communication campaigns and activities that utilize evidence-based approaches to raise awareness of COPD, particularly among those at high risk, and help people diagnosed with COPD manage the disease
- Expand opportunities to increase COPD awareness across the public-private spectrum
Collaboration: Tangita Daramola, Competitive Acquisition Ombudsman for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Barbara McCoy, Associate Ombudsman for CMS.
Activity Type: Patient education, Provider education
Activity Description
This webinar provided an overview to beneficiaries on the Medicare publication titled "Medicare Coverage of Durable Medical Equipment and Other Devices" (pub.11045). Updates were made to this publication in August 2020 in order to better meet the needs of Medicare beneficiaries, and this webinar reviewed those updates.Our guest speakers were Tangita Daramola, Competitive Acquisition Ombudsman for CMS and her colleague, Barbara McCoy, Associate Ombudsman for CMS. Tangita and Barbara discussed the updates that have been made to the publication with a special focus on respiratory durable medical equipment issues. They also covered resources available to Medicare beneficiaries, where beneficiaries can go to obtain assistance, and answered questions from participants.
Audience
General Audience: Patients, Caregivers or family members, Health professionals
Focused Audience: n/a
Program Reach: National
Type of Area: Urban, Suburban, Rural
Setting: Online
Cost and Funding Sources
Minimal cost, as all speakers volunteered their time.Impact Analysis
There were 86 individuals registered for the live webinar. The recording of the webinar has had an additional 8 views to date.Advice or Lessons Learned
Encourage participants to submit questions in writing in advance and during the webinar. Doing so allowed the participants to get their questions answered, while also keeping the flow of the webinar consistent, as the speakers did not have to stop to answer questions in real time. Answers to any questions that were not answered live due to time constraints were posted on the USCC website, along with a video recording of the webinar.Contact Information
US COPD Coalition
Executive Director
Union
Maine