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Here is some sample content from Durable Medical Equipment:

	PURPOSE: To ensure that equipment and supplies are provided to Hospice patients. POLICY: Medical supplies are provided by Hospice and durable medical equipment is obtained through a designated vendor holding a contract with Hospice. PROCEDURE: The durable medical equipment needed for an individual's support to stay at home will be obtained from a Hospice approved company as a component of the Medicare and Medicaid Hospice Benefit. Those supplies required for optimal comfort care and management of the Hospice patient will be obtained from the Hospice stock supplies provided by the Materials...
Second excerpt:
	...stock supplies provided by the Materials Management Department of the hospital as a component of the Medicare and Medicaid Hospice Benefit. The Medicare and Medicaid Hospice Benefit allows for the patient to be billed for 5% or $5.00 of the cost of drugs and biologicals. The Medicare and Medicaid Hospice Benefit does not allow for the billing of equipment or supplies which are related to the terminal illness and necessary to carry out the plan of care. 1 SUBJECT: DURABLE MEDICAL...