The Competitive Bidding program, which was required by the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement & Modernization Act of 2003 (or MMA), will replace the current payment amounts, for the items being bid, under Medicare’s DMEPOS fee schedule with payment rates derived from the bidding process. Suppliers that wish to furnish competitively bid items in a CBA were required to submit bids to furnish those items. According to CMS, contracts will be awarded to a sufficient number of winning bidders in each CBA. The winning bids will be used to establish a single Medicare payment amount for each item.