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VGM’s New Woman of the Year Award Picks up Momentum

Created to recognize women’s contributions to the HME marketplace, deadline for entries is Sept. 15.

e-Commerce

Products & Technology

Making the e-Commerce Connection

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?

Problem Solvers

POCs: Education for Improved Outcomes

There are multiple reasons why oxygen providers should establish POC education programs. Various experts examine those reasons and how providers should implement such programs.

Observation Deck

Optimizing the Handling of Faxes

Still an everyday reality of healthcare, facsmiles can be mishandled by even the most efficient provider. How can efaxing help fix the problem?

Grow Your Retail Business

HME Retail Sales

15 Ways To Grow Your Retail Business

HMEB talks to several retail experts to get their insights into 15 techniques any provider can implement to increase its retail revenues.

Legal Aspects of Retail Sales

HME Retail Sales

The Legal Aspects of Retail Sales

While retail offers considerable revenue potential, it is not worry-free. HMEB discusses the legal ins and outs of cash sales.

Retail Products

A round-up of some of the latest retail-oriented HME products on the market that any provider can start offering to its cash sales customers.

Editor's Note

Rekindling HME's Hope

July's setbacks to rural relief legislation were extremely frustrating, but the fight's far from over and there are reasons to feel optimistic.

Rural Relief

Business Solutions

The Rural Relief Rethink

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?

Providers Urged to Take Cost Study Survey

Effort will not only help better benchmark the industry, but provide much-needed data on true impact of competitive bidding.



CRT Industry Mourns Simon Margolis

Complex rehab practitioner and advocate helped advance the cause of protecting patient access to high-quality CRT.

Senate Champions Confirm Continued Rural Relief Support

Industry’s allies in the upper chamber say they will help push rural relief when Congress returns to the Hill in Sept.

Heartbreak for Rural Relief

While Senate hotline looked to put legislation on a fast track to approval, a last-minute hold stalls out rural providers’ reprieve from full bid expansion cuts. Industry considers next steps.

U.S. Health Spending Grew 5.5% in 2015

CMS releases 2015 to 2025 projections of national health expenditures; 2016 spending projected to grow by 4.8 percent.

Senate Likely to Approve Compromise Rural Relief

The Senate has put its version of the recently approved House rural relief bill on ‘hotline,’ which is typically a 24-hour fast track to approval.

Graham-Field Partners With Mercy Ships

GF Health Products will donate DME to help international charity that delivers free healthcare services to medically underserved nations.

Quantum Enhances Site with Customers in Mind

New site doubles down on product info, including 360-degree views, videos, resources for providers and clinicians.

CAIRE to Release Redesigned FreeStyle

AirSep POC to incorporate a variety of features requested by providers and patients.

Industry Leaders Urge Grassroots Support

As advocates work with Congressional leadership, providers, patients urged to lobby Senators and Representatives to compromise, advance rural relief to President by July 15.

3B Names New Sales VP

Sleep veteran brings more than 30 years’ experience in management, sales, and distribution.

CMS Rule Would Shift Bid Ceiling to 2015 Amounts

Bid limits on items covered by bid program would be based on fee schedule set prior to when bidding prices were set.

Allcare Medical Merging with National HME

Acquisition of Southeast provider will expand National HME's reach as DME provider serving hospice industry.

AAHomecare Study to Model Provider Costs

Effort will demonstrate the true cost of providing DMEPOS items to Medicare beneficiaries.

House Passes Rural Relief

While House sit-in stalled PADME vote, Representatives approve a delay that would push second round of expansion cuts to Sept. 30.

AAHomecare: Rural Relief Still Has a Chance

As July 1’s full rate cuts loom over rural providers, AAHomecare urges for continued grassroots advocacy as it might still secure a retroactive reform.

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