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NCART Hosting Free Legislative Webinar

Feb. 9 online conference will outline 2016 advocacy, legislative plan to protect CRT access.

healthcare IT

Products & Technology

Making Connections

The push for outcomes-oriented care has driven the various health professionals involved in a patient's care to work together more efficiently. A key way to facilitate that has been improved communications between their IT systems. Now that push for interoperability is finding its way to HME. How should providers prepare, and how can they benefit?

Editor's Note

Repeal the Device Tax

A new law just put the excise tax on a two-year hiatus. The industry should work to see it extended even further.

Product Spotlight

A Modular Approach

Medforce Technologies' new Apps aim to provide HME business solutions on a problem-by-problem basis.

power mobility funding

Problem Solvers

Making the Right Mobility Match

The nature of standard power mobility funding has added to the complexity of how providers ensure they select the right scooter for each patient.

Sidebar

Shaping a Showroom that Sells

A key element in retail sales is creating the right experience, and a well-thought-out retail showroom can help staff generate retail sale success.

Observation Deck

Lead Management Reimagined

Is it time for your business to step up and implement a lead management automation and analytics system?

Retail Sales

Business Solutions

Retail Sales: From Patients to Clients

Cash sales are becoming integral in enhancing and expanding providers' revenue streams, but are their employees ready for retail? Provider teams might feel like they're facing a cultural shift when it comes to retail, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Effective retail sales still require service, consultation and care.

CMS Won’t Implement CRT Accessories Price Fix Until July 1

Despite PAMPA’s passage on Jan. 1, CMS says it cannot implement correct fees until summer, at which point providers can submit adjustments.

Stakeholders Advocate Freezing Expansion at ‘Phase-in’ Rates

Plan outlined by various organizations would lobby for bid expansion's reimbursement stay at the current 50-50 rates slated to expire at July 1.



MED Group, ACPN Strike Deal

Agreement broadens MED Group members’ reach to ACPN’s network of patients.

Seventh Annual RT Survey Starts

HME Business’s annual survey of respiratory professions now live; providers urged to participate.

Sleep Providers Invited to Take Survey

HME Business soliciting responses for its Q1 2016 sleep survey.

VGM Insurance, AAHomecare Strike Pricing Deal

Insurance services provider and industry association partner to give AAHomcare members special rates on surety bonds and liability insurance.

VGM, Essentially Women Join Forces

Member service organization focused on women’s health will continue to act as a standlone company.

HME Spending Drops to 1.25% of Medicare Outlays

AAHomecare: While Medicare spending has skyrocketed since 2000, HME spending growth has remained flat.

Medtrade Spring Details Feb. 29 Workshops

Annual industry event will kick off with in-depth presentations covering DME certification, billing and A/R, sales, and a compression fitter’s course.

Harmar, 101 Mobility Give Boy a ‘Lift’

Lift maker and mobility provider team to donate a pool lift to 12-year-old Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy patient.

New SleepQuest President/COO Brings Expansion Expertise

Vandervennet brings a background in scaling businesses into national brands to new role at sleep care provider.

3B Medical Commits to Stem Cell Research

Sleep company will dedicate share of profits to adult autologous stem cell research.

TayCar to Manage ATHOMES

Association management service adds Tennessee to its list of state-level HME associations that it helps organize.

O2 Concepts Names New CFO

Cory Smith brings finance and IT leadership background to POC maker.

Audit Key Goes Live

Providers urged to register for program that is collecting the hard data that will help make a strong case for reforming CMS’s audit program.

Medtrade Spring: HME's Face-to-Face Social Network

Feb. 29-March 2 event offers up a variety of networking opportunities to help HME providers share information, insights.

AAHomecare: Bi-Partisan Support Needed for Bidding Reforms

Industry association highlights the need for industry advocates to drive Democratic support for legislation that would protect rural providers from national bidding expasion.

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