Congress Proposing more cuts to Medicare

For immediate release

Congress is proposing more cuts to Medicare that will further affect Medicare beneficiaries by reducing oxygen reimbursements and limiting access to power mobile devices.

These and other reductions will reduce beneficiaries’ freedom to choose their home medical equipment provider, which will lead to compromised quality of service and diminished quality of life.

It is time to speak up and to raise awareness of the home medical equipment industry. Enough is enough. Medicare beneficiaries should not have to be burdened with additional cuts, and deserve the right to be able to choose their own local, small-business provider.

Citizens are urged to call the U.S. Capitol switchboard on Dec. 2, “Shut Down the Switchboard Day”, and tell their Congressperson to co-sponsor HR 3790 and ask their Senators to support legislation to repeal the durable medical equipment competitive bidding program. The passage of these bills will ensure that Medicare beneficiaries get the care that they deserve.

Americans of all ages are encouraged to dial the switchboard at 202.224.3121. More information and talking points on HR 3790 can be found at www.lastchanceforpatients.org.

For more information, call
Jersey City Medical Supplies, Inc
316 Central Avenue
Jersey City, NJ 07307
Phone: (201) 217-9950

Press Release

Press Release: JERSEY CITY MEDICAL SUPPLIES INC RECEIVES ACCREDITATION, ILLUSTRATING ITS COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE

Press Release - HQAA Accreditation Awarded

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Jersey City Medical Supplies, Inc

Phone: (201) 217-9950

Paulo Santiago, info@jerseycitymedicalsupply.com

Jersey City Medical Supplies, Inc RECEIVES ACCREDITATION, ILLUSTRATING ITS COMMITMENT TO EXCELLENCE IN PATIENT CARE

Jersey City, NJ.—09/11/2009—Jersey City Medical Supplies, Inc, a durable home medical equipment company, has achieved the Award of Accreditation from the Healthcare Quality Association on Accreditation, based in Waterloo, Iowa. This award is achieved only when home medical equipment companies demonstrate a high level of quality practices in their business operations and patient care techniques. Jersey City Medical Supplies, Inc, Jersey City, NJ., earned the three-year accreditation after completing a comprehensive application that focuses on patient care, financial stability, and a commitment to quality operational practices and procedures. Accreditation by the Healthcare Quality Association on Accreditation assures Medicare and other payers that the highest levels of quality are practiced within all areas of the company.

“We sought accreditation by the Healthcare Quality Association on Accreditation to demonstrate that our company is committed to providing excellent patient care and safety in a financially solvent environment,” says Paulo Santiago, President of Jersey City Medical Supplies, Inc. “This award also reinforces that our commitment to quality is ongoing.”

Founded in 2005, the Healthcare Quality Association on Accreditation seeks to continuously set standards of the highest quality on behalf of the durable medical equipment industry and business owners. Its interactive, Web-based design is specifically aimed at the durable medical equipment industry, providing a targeted approach to accreditation and quality improvement.

About Jersey City Medical Supplies, Inc

Established in 2000, Jersey City Medical Supplies, Inc is Jersey City Medical Supplies, Inc is a family owned and operated home medical equipment provider. Jersey City Medical Supplies, Inc has been in business since 2000 and became family owned and operated since 09/27/2006, since then our customers have never been happier. This is a claim we make proudly since our patients are the primary focal point of our business and due to us being family owned and operated, we give more of a personal touch to our service that you cannot receive from other providers. With our family operated values Jersey City Medical Supplies, Inc is under the accreditation entity HQAA (Healthcare Quality Association on Accreditation).In addition to offering great services to our patients, we add value to the primary care physicians and networks that utilize our equipment. We work with the physician in order to make sure that their patients, our patients, receive the care they need with the equipment needed. We follow the physician’s or caseworker’s plan of care closely, if we run into any issues with the patient’s insurance company, we inform the patient first and work through it with them while keeping the patient satisfied with the service and caring that only comes from using a family owned and operated business

July Update

Hello all,

We have established new business relationships to continue serving our NJ patients and clients. Please let us know how we are doing, either online or through our comment binder that we have in our store. Look forward to seeing you. We also updated our look for the website located at: Jersey City Medical Supplies , also for those times that you feel 'lonely' and can get to sleep I do recommend heading to Daily Audio Bible God will always be there to listen.

New Hours

Hello;

We are still struggling and to see if we can bring more business we are trying new hours as follows:

Monday through Sunday from 10am-6pm - Let us know if these hours are good by paying us a visit!

April Update

Hello all, we are going through some tough times still. Accreditation is hitting us hard but we are making it it seems. We finished the documentation review process of Accreditation and are just waiting for our survey from HQAA, unfortunately HQAA can not confirm if we are going to be surveyed before the deadline.

On a another note Medicare has decided to stop covering regular orthosis, such as ankle braces, air casts, back supports, and other braces that they consider do not help to treat a disease or injury, in their logic these items from FLA Orthopedics and Advance Orthopedics only help alleviate pain but not treat it so they are no longer covering these items unless it's one of the higher end, stuck in a position brace that most patients do not want to be seen wearing. If you want more information on this you can read up here: http://www.oandp.com/articles/NEWS_2009-01-29_01.asp

NJ Medicaid is still taking money out of every payment they send us for something the previous owner supposedly did and there is nothing we can do about it, hmmm, now I see why alot of businesses complain about NJ. Then to Top the cake as per NJ we owe alot of back taxes too.

Any ideas out there? Well, pray for us! We want to help the patients as much as we can but the State makes it harder and harder.

JCMS Update

Well the NJ and Federal labor taxes have been paid off finally and are up to date till this quarter. A recurring biweekly payment is being sent to Matrix Distributors so the debts are slowly being taken care of. Unfortunately we are being 'attacked' in a way from Tafa Healthcare since they need their money, which I have no complaints about since if I believe I was owed money I would be hounding people too, especially if I felt that I was being ignored. Unfortunately for them after a careful review of payments sent to them and bills sent by them it seems they owe Jersey City Medical Supplies $7472.17. We are awaiting a response from them to see if there is any discrepency in our books, because anything is possible. If there isn't then we will have to send them a letter requesting payment.
On another note, NJ Medicaid, sent us a letter requesting payment for a stocking audit review process they put the previous owner Roland Rolando through, which we were not aware of. We are currently in the process of reviewing this. Medicare also was sent documentation that they requested since they stated we are under review for fraud because of complaints they received. We provided Medicare with all information requested and are awaiting their answer.

Delivery Vehicle - Crashed

Due to an accident with our main delivery vehicle some deliveries may be delayed. We have the vehicle at the mechanic and are working on ways around this delay. Please call us if you have any questions.

Fortunately noone was serious harmed, Patricia suffered some whiplash.

New Look for the Main Website

Today I spent all day updating the look for Jersey City Medical Supplies' website that way we can detail more information about the business and be able to better inform our clients.

I used a similar color scheme as the blog in order to do uniformity.

New Blog

Hey all, since I started speaking about my issues with this company on my Obsidian Computer's blogspot I decided to make one. Here I am hoping to keep all interested parties about the going ons with Jersey City Medical Supplies, informed.

Currently Jersey City Medical Supplies owes a large sum of money to the following people:

• Tafa Healthcare
• Matrix Distributors
• IRS
• NJ
• Pardo and Mezzina's Accounting

Unfortunately the business is also in the middle of the accredidation process required by Medicare and Medicare decided to put us under review so we had to halt accredidation proceedings to get Medicare what they want.

We have a new employee starting soon by the name of Miguel Santiago, his start date is scheduled to a week after January 6th. We have high hopes that he will assist in growing the business to where it should be.

I am currently backed up on EOBs and Invoices entering so I am hoping to catch up on that soon as well.

Independence Medical claims that we owe them money but after taking the time to review the invoices and payments in their folder it really seems like they owe us a few credits I will have to confirm this once I have the opportunity.

Jersey City Medical Supplies, Inc
316 Central Avenue
Jersey City, NJ 07307
Phone: (201) 217-9950
Fax: (201) 217-9952

Our business website can be reached at:

http://www.jerseycitymedicalsupply.com/

Below I decided to put the spot that we paid the UEZ Improvement district to advertise, we are at the last bit of the commercial. We are hoping that this commercial also brings us more business. God Bless all.