{"id":10769,"date":"2026-02-26T23:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T23:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/cms-national-moratorium-durable-medical-equipment\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T23:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T23:02:19","slug":"cms-national-moratorium-durable-medical-equipment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/cms-national-moratorium-durable-medical-equipment\/","title":{"rendered":"CMS announces pause on new durable medical equipment suppliers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    CMS announces pause on new durable medical equipment suppliers<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Trump administration announced Wednesday a nationwide moratorium on new suppliers for certain medical equipment, citing a need to get a handle on the \u201cfraud, waste, and abuse\u201d in the industry that provides wheelchairs, artificial limbs and other equipment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe amount of fraud is so massive that it\u2019s easier to open one of these suppliers than to open a bank account,\u201d said Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz during a press conference with health secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and Vice President JD Vance about tackling health care fraud.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/02\/26\/cms-national-moratorium-durable-medical-equipment\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    O. Rose Broderick<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/02\/26\/cms-national-moratorium-durable-medical-equipment\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CMS announces pause on new durable medical equipment suppliers The Trump administration announced Wednesday a nationwide moratorium on new suppliers for certain medical equipment, citing a need to get a handle on the \u201cfraud, waste, and abuse\u201d in the industry that provides wheelchairs, artificial limbs and other equipment.\u00a0 \u201cThe amount of fraud is so massive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2157,2238,1428,2151,2144],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-10769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-disability","category-health","category-policy","category-politics","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}