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VGM Associates Attend Brain Injury Event

Supporters, survivors and advocates meet to spread awareness.

Jan paul Miller Joins BOC

New certification director brings several disciplines to position.

Otto Bock HealthCare Hires Darrell Burnette

New sales rep will work for Mobility Solutions team.

Apria Inhales Praxair

Apria buys specialty gas provider’s U.S. homecare, DME business.

AAHomecare Logs 100+ NCB Complaints

Association takes list of patient and provider frustrations to media, Congress.

Brightree Acquires Pacware

Pacware president, west coast office will remain.

Pride Mobility and Quantum Rehab Redefine Seminar Tour

New professional education offerings will be IACET authorized.

The Scooter Store Receives Funding 

Capital was sought to fuel new opportunities.

ResMed CEO Resigns

Gallahue becomes CareFusion chairman and CEO.

McKesson Reports Q3 Results

Third-quarter revenues reach $28.2 billion.



Power Selling

Bad Weather Selling – Brrrrrr

This nasty weather shouldn’t put the deep freeze on your selling.

Funding Focus

Protecting Your Payments

Despite their best efforts providers still find what documents they have don't meet with the intent of the LCD, as interpreted by CERT auditors.

VPAV Auto 25

Sleep Case Study

Saving Jim

How a bilevel rescue transformed a difficult patient’s compliance.

Problem Solvers

Getting the Right Support

Addressing the unique support surface needs of bariatric mobility patients.

Winning in the A/R Game

Business Solutions

Winning the A/R Game

For years, many providers did not place much emphasis on collecting co-pays. The effort to do so was time-intenstive and costly. However, that was when the Medicare funding climate was much more hospitable and providers could stand to let co-pays slip. Now, declining reimbursements and increasing cash-flow demands are forcing providers to give collecting co-pays much more A/R attention. What are the tools, services and strategies providers should consider as they get serious about winning the co-pay game?

Portable Oxygen

Portable Oxygen

Forced Evolution

How oxygen providers are learning to transform in a market in flux.

Editor's Note

Maintain The Intensity

Keep the bidding complaints coming.

Brightree, NAIMES Align

Software firm, association will share information to support industry advocacy.

 Economics Prof Refutes CMS Head’s Charges of Flawed Study

University of Northern Iowa’s Brown questions CMS’s Blum’s arguments that NCB could be good for small providers.

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Griffin Home Health Care Founder Completes Leadership Fellows Program

Griffin Home Health Care Founder Completes Leadership Fellows Program

Get in on Grassroots’ Ground Floor

Join the Save Homecare Now! campaign.

AAHomecare to Obama: Review HME Regulations

Association makes request after executive order calling for large-scale regulatory review.

Charlotte Patients Can’t Get HME

Patient problems with competitive bidding lead topic at NCAMES Winter Meeting.

Maddak Founder Celebrates 90th Birthday

Kurt Landsberger continues working for ADL manufacturer.

Essentially Women Hosting ‘Focus on the Future 2011’

Eleventh annual women’s health expo and conference slated for April 4 to 6.

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