Today's <I>MDD</I> food for med-tech thought

"We expect that when the program is [fully] implemented ... Medicare will save about a billion dollars a year in the cost of equipment and supplies,"

&8211;&8211;Kerry Weems of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on the impact of a new competitive bidding process, "Medicare says DME competitive bidding will lower prices by 26%," pp. 1, 6.