Competitive Bid Areas

Definition

A geographic area established by the Secretary for the purposes of the (DMEPOS) Competitive Bidding Program.  These geographic areas can represent a portion of multiple counties and/or states within the same Competitive Bid Area.  There are many CBAs that include multiple states.  The Office of Management and Budget's formal definition of metropolitan areas referred to as "Metropolitan Statistical Areas" (MSAs) are composed of counties and county-equivalents.
 

91 Competitive Bid Areas

Originally, CBIC (Competitive Bid Implementation Contractor) released 70 Competitive Bid Areas in 2008 for Round 2.  An additional 21 CBAs were added.

Round 2 Competitive Bid Areas

West
Albuquerque, NM
Bakersfield, CA
Boise City-Nampa, ID
Colorado Springs, CO
Denver-Aurora, CO
Fresno, CA
Honolulu, HI
Las Vegas-Paradise, NV
Los Angeles County, CA
Orange County, CA
Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA
Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ
Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton, OR-WA
Sacramento--Arden-Arcade--Roseville, CA
Salt Lake City, UT
San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, CA
San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA
Stockton, CA
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA
Tucson, AZ
South
Asheville, NC
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, GA
Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC
Austin-Round Rock, TX
Baton Rouge, LA
Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX
Birmingham-Hoover, AL
Bradenton-Sarasota-Venice, FL
Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL
Charleston-North Charleston, SC
Chattanooga, TN-GA
Columbia, SC
Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL
El Paso, TX
Greensboro-High Point, NC
Greenville-Mauldin-Easley, SC
Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX
Jackson, MS
Jacksonville, FL
Knoxville, TN
Lakeland, FL

Northeast
 
Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR
Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY
Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN
Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ
McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX
Baltimore-Towson, MD
Memphis, TN-MS-AR
Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH
Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN
Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT
New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner, LA
Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY
Ocala, FL
Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT
Oklahoma City, OK
New Haven-Milford, CT
Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL
New York-No New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA
Raleigh-Cary, NC
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD
Richmond, VA
Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown, NY
San Antonio, TX
Providence-New Bedford-Fall River, RI-MA
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL
Rochester, NY
Tulsa, OK
Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA
Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC
Springfield, MA
Syracuse, NY
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV
Worcester, MA

Midwest
Akron, OH
Indianapolis-Carmel, IN
Chicago-Naperville-Joliet, IL-IN-WI
Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, WI
Columbus, OH
Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI
Dayton, OH
Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA
Detroit-Warren-Livonia, MI
Toledo, OH
Flint, MI
St. Louis, MO-IL
Grand Rapids-Wyoming, MI
Wichita, KS
Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH
Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, OH-P

Competitive Bid Areas

Each CBA is a metropolitan statistical area which has been defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB).  Each MSA contains a list of cities and/or counties.  Medicare defines the CBA by listing zip codes from the MSA. 
 

Round 1: 

New Bid Prices effective 1/1/2011
If your company was not awarded a contract for Round 1, you CANNOT provide equipment, supplies and services to Medicare beneficiaries that live in a Round 1 CBA on 1/1/2011.