To All VGM Fall Series Attendees: Here is (via link) a large Excel file which includes the current master listing of ALL DMEPOS suppliers with an active Medicare PTAN number. https://data.medicare.gov/data/supplier-directory (Also, you may reference your power point for additional instructions.) I will detail the contents of each column below, but, in a short version, the file allows you to view every location (by NPI) of every company/entity in the U.S. that is eligible to bill Medicare for at least one (of 80) product categories. In addition, the file lists every competitive bid contract currently in effect per each location/NPI, by product category. This spreadsheet may be copied/edited and is easily manipulated via the Data/Sort function. For example, you may wish to copy a certain state or region and obtain a listing of all suppliers in the area by city for member prospecting, insurance, referrals, advocacy, and many other potential reasons. You can also sort these locations as to which suppliers offer certain products…for example CPAP. There are 80 product categories in which the NSC recognizes and updates via the 855S format. Many full line suppliers offer dozens of products. Some niche suppliers (think opticians who offer cataract sunglasses) may only be in one or two categories. You will be able to sort these out by a tool I reference below. In the meantime, here is a key to the spreadsheet column… The first 21 (A to X) identify the supplier by location/contact detail and to whether the supplier has any competitive bid contracts. It also includes a column (X) as to whether the entity is a participating Medicare supplier. See below. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Competitive Bid Service Area Company Name DBA Name Address Address 2 City State Zip Zip Plus 4 Phone Oxygen Supplies and Equipment Mail-Order Diabetic Supplies Enteral Nutrients, Equipment and Supplies CPAP Devices, Respiratory Assist Devices, and Related Supplies and Accessories Hospital Beds and Related Accessories Negative Pressure Wound Therapy Pumps and Related Supplies and Accessories Q R S T U V W X Walkers and Related Accessories Support Surfaces (Group 2 mattresses and overlays) Standard (Power & Manual) Wheelchairs, Scooters, and Related Accessories External Infusion Pumps and Supplies General Home Equipment and Related Supplies and Accessories Respiratory Equipment and Related Supplies and Accessories Standard Mobility Equipment and Related Accessories Is Supplier Participating? Beginning with Column K (this is Oxygen Supplies and Equipment) the data option is either NO or YES. If NO this supplier has no competitive bid contract. If YES then the supplier (in this location) has a competitive bid contract for that product category. Both Round 1 recompete and Round 2 product categories follow in columns K through W. Remember there were differences in categories between these two rounds. At column X the competitive bid data set ends and, as noted, column X is a YES or NO as to whether the supplier is participating. The next series of columns include all 80 product categories included within the 855S enrollment data. If the supplier location is accredited/credentialed to bill Medicare for the category, the indication is YES. If not NO. Starting with Column Y and ending at Column DA the products are as follows: Automatic External Defibrillators (AEDS) Commodes, Urinals, & Bedpans Continuous Passive Motion (CPM) Devices Dynamic Splints Blood Glucose Monitors & Supplies: Non-Mail Order Blood Glucose Monitors & Supplies: Mail Order Blood Glucose Monitors: Mail Order Gastric Suction Pumps Heat & Cold Applications Hospital Beds: Electric Hospital Beds: Total Electric & Pediatric Hospital Beds: Manual Hospital Beds: Manual & Pediatric Infrared Heating Pad Systems Infusion Pumps & Supplies: External Infusion Infusion Pumps: Implantable & Uninterrupted Infusion Pumps & Supplies: Insulin Infusion Infusion Pumps & Supplies: Implanted Infusion Negative Pressure Wound Therapy Pumps & Supplies Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulators (NMES) Osteogenesis Stimulators Pneumatic Compression Devices Speech Generating Devices Support Surfaces: Pressure Reducing Beds, Mattresses, Overlays, & Pads Support Surfaces (e.g. Air Fluidized bed) Traction Equipment Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulators (TENS) Units Ultraviolet Light Devices Home Dialysis Equipment & Supplies Hemodialysis Equipment & Supplies Canes & Crutches Patient Lifts Power Operated Vehicles (Scooters) Seat Lift Mechanisms Walkers Wheelchairs & Accessories:Standard Manual Wheelchairs & Accessories:Standard Manual (e.g. Pediatrics) Wheelchairs & Accessories:Standard Power Wheelchairs & Accessories:Standard Power (e.g. Pediatrics and custom cushions ) Wheelchairs & Accessories:Complex Rehabilitative Manual Wheelchairs & Accessories:Complex Rehabilitative Power Wheelchairs & Accessories:Complex Rehabilitative Power (e.g. Group 3, Group 4, Group 5) Wheelchair Seating/Cushions Wheelchair Seating/Cushions (e.g. skin protecting seat cushions) Orthoses: Custom Fabricated Orthoses: Prefabricated Orthoses: Off-the-Shelf Breast Prostheses & Accessories Cochlear Implants Facial Prostheses Neurostimulators Ocular Prostheses Ostomy Supplies Somatic Prostheses Tracheostomy Supplies Urological Supplies Voice Prosthetics Prosthetic Lenses: Conventional Eyeglasses Prosthetic Lenses: Conventional Contact Lenses Prosthetic Lenses: Prosthetic Cataract Lenses Enteral Nutrients, Equipment, & Supplies Enteral Nutrients & Supplies for Special Metabolic Needs and Pediatrics Parenteral Nutrients, Equipment & Supplies Limb Prostheses Eye Prostheses CPAP, RADs, & Related Supplies & Accessories CPAP and RADs Supplies (e.g. combination masks) High Frequency Chest Wall Oscillation (HFCWO) Devices Invasive Mechanical Ventilation Intermittent Positive Pressure Breathing (IPPB) Devices Intrapulmonary Percussive Ventilation Devices Mechanical In-Exsufflation Devices Nebulizer Equipment & Supplies Nebulizer Equipment: Ultrasonic and Controlled Dose Oxygen Equipment & Supplies Respiratory Suction Pumps Ventilators, Accessories & Supplies Surgical Dressings Diabetic Shoes & Inserts: Prefabricated Diabetic Shoes & Inserts: Custom Fabricated Now, I recognize that much data may be difficult to comprehend. What you could do is select just a state or region, and copy it into another blank spreadsheet. Then, using the find and replace function, highlight from Column Y and all through the 80 other product columns and “find” all the “NO” cells. Replace it with a blank (insert nothing). Now there are many cells with nothing in them and will be ignored. Do the same thing with the YES “find” but replace it with a 1 (one). Then highlight all of the product category columns, and, in the next one to the right of all of them, use the “count” function. I will show you an example below, but it is merely @count(row number cell number..row number cell number) and copied all the way down. This will give you how many categories this supplier location is eligible to bill. Then you can resort the entire list of suppliers from top to bottom by number of categories. Those suppliers “on top” (with the most categories) are likely your competitors or HMEs of interest. The ones at the bottom (with just a few) are likely opticians or niche suppliers. As an example, I copied all of the Iowa DMEPOS suppliers from the master spreadsheet. (I would attach it but it is 30 MB!!). I then followed the instructions above and eliminated from any “counting” all of the Iowa locations with NO in the product columns by a Find and Replace. I did the same thing with YES, and then used the @count function to array them from top to bottom. (I inserted a new column next to the company name – B – and titled it “Yes’s – meaning that is the number of YES results I sorted.) Here is a sample of what I received (more than 34 “YES” only) Competitive Bid Service Area YES's 49 AVERA HOME MEDICAL EQUIPMENT 49 47 FLOYD VALLEY HOME MEDICAL EQUIPMENT AVERA HOME MEDICAL EQUIPMENT OF SIOUX CENTER AVERA HOME MEDICAL EQUIPMENT OF SPENCER HOSPITAL LLC DBA Name AVERA HOME MEDICAL EQUIPMENT AVERA HOME MEDICAL EQUIPMENT OF FLO AVERA HOME MEDICAL EQUIPMENT OF SIO AVERA HOME MEDICAL EQUIPMENT OF SPE 46 UNITYPOINT AT HOME UNITYPOINT AT HOME 46 46 UNITYPOINT AT HOME UNITYPOINT AT HOME UNITYPOINT AT HOME UNITYPOINT AT HOME 49 Company Name A 6 A 1 N 3 S 7 A 1 C 1 A 1 Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA 45 APRIA HEALTHCARE LLC APRIA HEALTHCARE INC 45 UNITYPOINT AT HOME UNITYPOINT AT HOME Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA 45 APRIA HEALTHCARE LLC APRIA HEALTHCARE LLC Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA 45 APRIA HEALTHCARE LLC APRIA HEALTHCARE INC 45 UNITYPOINT AT HOME UNITYPOINT AT HOME 44 PSI HEALTH CARE INC 43 CHI NATIONAL HOME CARE PSI HEALTH CARE MERCY RESPIRATORY CARE AND MEDICAL 43 APRIA HEALTHCARE LLC APRIA HEALTHCARE INC 43 APRIA HEALTHCARE LLC APRIA HEALTHCARE 43 APRIA HEALTHCARE LLC 43 CHI NATIONAL HOME CARE APRIA HEALTHCARE INC MERCY RESPIRATORY CARE AND MEDICAL 43 DUMED, INC. DUMED HOME HEALTH CARE 43 APRIA HEALTHCARE LLC APRIA HEALTHCARE LLC 43 APRIA HEALTHCARE LLC APRIA HEALTHCARE INC 43 APRIA HEALTHCARE LLC 41 41 HERITAGE MEDICAL EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES VALUE CARE INC APRIA HEALTHCARE LLC HERITAGE MEDICAL EQUIPMENT & SUPP HOMECARE MEDICAL SUPPLY Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA Northern-Chicago Metro CBA A 6 S 1 1 1 A 2 S 2 B 5 A 1 2 7 T 3 S 1 A 6 H 3 C 4 2 1 R 2 A 6 A 3 41 EXCEL MEDICAL OF FORT DODGE INC 41 P B R INC EXCEL MEDICAL MED EQIP HOME CARE PHARMACY 3 41 HAMILTON MEDICAL EQUIPMENT SERVICE INC HAMILTON MEDICAL EQUIPMENT 41 EXCEL MEDICAL OF MARSHALLTOWN INC EXCEL MEDICAL 41 HAMILTON MEDICAL EQUIPMENT SERVICE INC HOMECARE HELPING HAND 41 P B R INC 41 HAMILTON MEDICAL EQUIPMENT SERVICE INC 41 HERITAGE MEDICAL EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES MED-EQUIP HILL ROUSE HOME MEDICAL EQUIPMENT HERITAGE MEDICAL EQUIPMENT & SUPPLI 40 LINCARE INC LINCARE INC 40 LINCARE INC LINCARE INC 40 LINCARE INC LINCARE INC 40 LINCARE INC LINCARE INC 40 LINCARE INC LINCARE INC 40 LINCARE INC LINCARE INC 40 LINCARE INC LINCARE INC 39 39 UNITYPOINT AT HOME AMERICAN HOMEPATIENT, INC. UNITYPOINT AT HOME AMERICAN HOMEPATIENT S 1 A 1 A 1 R 5 S 7 S 1 S 3 A 1 A 2 S 2 S 4 S 5 N 8 A 2 B 4 D 1 S 3 Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA 39 KEOKUK AREA MEDICAL EQUIPMENT & SUPPLY, INC. KEOKUK AREA MEDICAL EQUIPMENT SUPPL 39 AMERICAN HOMEPATIENT, INC. AMERICAN HOMEPATIENT 39 AMERICAN HOMEPATIENT, INC. AMERICAN HOMEPATIENT 39 LINCARE INC LINCARE INC 38 AHP-MHR HOME CARE, LLP AHP-MHR HOMECARE 38 HAMMER INCORPORATED HAMMER MEDICAL SUPPLY 38 HAMMER INCORPORATED HAMMER MEDICAL SUPPLY EAST 38 HAMMER INCORPORATED HAMMER MEDICAL SUPPLY 38 HAMMER INCORPORATED HAMMER MEDICAL SUPPLY 38 HAMMER INCORPORATED HAMMER MED SUPPLY 38 HAMMER INCORPORATED HAMMER INCORPORATED 38 HAMMER INCORPORATED HAMMER MEDICAL SUPPLY 37 C R PHARMACY SERVICE INC 37 CHI NATIONAL HOME CARE CAREPRO HOME MEDICAL ALEGENT CREIGHTON HEALTH AT HOME ME 37 HAMMER INCORPORATED ALEGENT HEALTH BERGAN MERCY HEALTH SYSTEM SANFORD HOME MEDICAL EQUIPMENT, INC HAMMER MEDICAL SUPPLY ALEGENT HEALTH AT HOME MEDICAL EQUI SANFORD HOME MEDICAL EQUIPMENT 37 37 S 4 S 1 W 5 A 6 A 4 S 9 A 1 A 2 S 1 E 1 E 6 A 8 R 4 S 4 S 6 S 4 S 2 INC Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA 36 NUDAK VENTURES LLC NUCARA IV SERVICES 36 NUDAK VENTURES LLC NUCARA PHARMACY #16 36 COMMUNITY MEDICAL SUPPLY, INC. COMMUNITY MEDICAL SUPPLY INC 36 AMERICAN HOMEPATIENT, INC. 36 COVENANT MEDICAL CENTER INC AMERICAN HOMEPATIENT COVENANT HOME MEDICAL SERVICES 35 C R PHARMACY SERVICE INC CAREPRO HOME MEDICAL 35 WILLIAM BURKE LTD MAIN AT LOCUST PHARMACY 35 UNITYPOINT AT HOME UNITYPOINT AT HOME 35 COMMUNITY MEDICAL SUPPLY, INC. COMMUNITY MEDICAL SUPPLY INC 34 HAMMER INCORPORATED HAMMER MEDICAL SUPPLY 34 MERCY HEALTH SERVICES-IOWA, CORP MERCY HOME CARE DUBUQUE 34 KOHLLS PHARMACY & HOMECARE INC 34 CHI NATIONAL HOME CARE KOHLL'S PHARMACY & HOMECARE ALEGENT CREIGHTON HEALTH AT HOME ME 33 AMERICAN HOMEPATIENT, INC. AMERICAN HOMEPATIENT W 1 S 1 S 5 S 2 A 4 D 4 A 1 S 8 R 2 D 1 S 2 D 4 S 4 S 9 S What I did not copy and paste is all of the product category columns that each supplier location is able to bill. But it is easy to do and see once the sorting is completed. Some of you will not want to do all of the sorting steps. That’s fine – you can still visualize the product categories (and competitive bid contracts by location) without any data manipulation. And you can call me for help. Hope you find this helpful!
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