South Dakota has become the latest state to approve Medicaid reimbursement for bidirectional thermal fuses, joining Iowa, Washington, North Dakota, Kansas, and Missouri in taking action at state level to protect home oxygen patients from home oxygen fires.
The approval means that home medical equipment providers (DMEs) in South Dakota can now be reimbursed for supplying the devices.
Investigations into a deadly fire at the Gabriel House assisted living home in Fall River Massachusetts found that the fire started in a room where
Writing in the March 2026 issue of HME News, Ray Reynolds Chair of the International Association of Fire Chiefs’ Home Oxygen Therapy Fire Working Group
Despite a recent decision by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) not to create a unique reimbursement code (HCPCS) for thermal fuses –
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