Business Solutions
Sleep therapy remains an important and growing care sector for many providers. We explore the concrete ways in which sleep therapy equipment providers can increase their referral sales and drive more business.
- By Joseph Duffy
- Feb 01, 2017
Products & Technology
We have seen the ways remote patient monitoring has changed sleep therapy care, outcomes, and business models. What does this mean in terms of providers’ ability to improve care and outcomes? How will that benefit their referral partner relationships? What are the technology trends that will make it happen? What other HME segments might see increased monitoring? Diabetes? Oxygen?
- By David Kopf
- Jan 01, 2017
Business Solutions
Every January, we project 10 key market, product, technology, reimbursement, regulatory, legislative, or patient care trends that will impact providers over the next 12 months. This year brings competitive bidding’s continued impact, audits, providers’ continued efforts to diversify and even reinvent their businesses, and more.
- By David Kopf
- Jan 01, 2017
DME Pharmacy
Like an experienced chef testing a new recipe, pharmacies adding DME products to their retail mix might not have the same degree of familiarity with DME items as they do with typical pharmacy products. We talk to some experts to get their insights.
- By Joseph Duffy
- Dec 01, 2016
DME Pharmacy
Pharmacies selling Medicare reimbursable DME items will eventually be audited. We examine how to protect your claims and how documentation helps minimize your risk of having a claim recouped.
- By Joseph Duffy
- Dec 01, 2016
Products & Technology
Software systems continue to play a critical role in helping HME businesses increase their efficiency and drive cost out of their business models in order to buttress the bottom line in a changing market. And like a constantly developing market, these systems are broadening and evolving to help their users. We survey the latest developments.
- By David Kopf
- Dec 01, 2016
HME Business Award Winners
The third annual HMEB New Product Awards program enjoyed even larger turnout this year. After careful consideration from our HME provider judges, we have announced 15 winning products across multiple categories. Learn the backstory of our winning offerings, and how these products can benefit providers and patients alike.
- By David Kopf
- Dec 01, 2016
Products & Technology
Now that HME-specific IT solutions are the norm when it comes to managing HME businesses, providers have started to amass a considerable amount of patient information. How can HME providers use that information and the reporting tools offered by their software systems to work with referral partners to help drive improved outcomes?
- By David Kopf
- Nov 01, 2016
Products & Technology
Orthopedic softgoods are needed by a variety of patients, and those products offer a solid blend of both funded and retail revenue. What are the key patient groups, their needs and the products that serve them? Also how can providers plan and build their orthopedic businesses to ensure continued, long-term success? What assets make for the best approach?
- By David Kopf
- Nov 01, 2016
Medtrade 2016's expo runs from Nov. 1 to Nov. 3 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, and once again the event will offer a wide spectrum of products to help providers meet new and existing patient needs. We profile more than 25 of this year’s must-see offerings at the show.
- By Joseph Duffy, David Kopf
- Oct 01, 2016
Providers starting a women's health business can tap into a variety of industry resources to help grow their fledgling businesses.
- By Joseph Duffy
- Oct 01, 2016
Business Solutions
Each fall we turn to the members of HMEB's editorial advisory board to gain their insights into the trends, obstacles, challenges and opportunities that providers should consider as they shape their business strategies for the next several months. This year, many of the board members are telling us that the future will likely be what providers make of it.
- By David Kopf
- Oct 01, 2016
Women's health products and services can be a viable revenue stream for HME providers. How do providers get started?
- By Joseph Duffy
- Oct 01, 2016
Business Solutions
Clearly retail sales have created a revolution in how savvy HME provider owners and operators approach their revenues. As providers start climbing to the higher reaches of the retail learning curve there is an increased demand to measure performance to expand their success. We examine the key retail performance metrics they should measure.
- By David Kopf
- Sep 01, 2016
Business Solutions
The fight to protect complex rehab therapy accessories and to create a separate benefit continues. After getting a one-year delay to CMS's application of bidding prices to complex rehab accessories, the industry works to not only advance a permanent fix to that, but to finally establish complex rehab as a separate benefit under the DMEPOS program.
- By David Kopf
- Sep 01, 2016
Products & Technology
As providers continue to explore how they can expand their retail sales revenues, they are coming face-to-face with an unavoidable reality: e-commerce. Businesses large and small are selling online, and customers want to buy online. How should providers shape their e-commerce plans, and what are the key considerations they must keep in mind?
- By David Kopf
- Aug 01, 2016
HME Retail Sales
HMEB talks to several retail experts to get their insights into 15 techniques any provider can implement to increase its retail revenues.
- By Joseph Duffy
- Aug 01, 2016
HME Retail Sales
While retail offers considerable revenue potential, it is not worry-free. HMEB discusses the legal ins and outs of cash sales.
- By Joseph Duffy
- Aug 01, 2016
Business Solutions
After considerable and concerted lobbying work on the part of providers, industry leadership, Congressional champions and other HME advocates, relief from national expansion cuts for rural providers was stymied not once, but twice. What happened, and how can the industry reapproach advancing some form of rural relief?
- By David Kopf
- Aug 01, 2016
Business Solutions
Audits continue to play an unsavory role in the day-today lives of HME providers, and that role is one that is constantly shifting as HHS and its contractors emphasize different aspects of their program integrity efforts. We look at coming and developing trends in audits, and ask the experts how providers should plan and prepare.
- By David Kopf
- Apr 01, 2016