Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr lawyers explore employment law pitfalls providers need to avoid.
- By David Kopf
- Apr 24, 2014
Medical, DME portfolio company purchases N.J. full-service HME provider business.
- By David Kopf
- Apr 24, 2014
Products & Technology
Inventory typically represents the top overhead item for providers. In a cost-conscious reimbursement environment, HME providers have needed to develop smart inventory management and purchasing strategies to cope. HMEB looks at some of the techniques and tools they are using to contend with a constantly changing environment.
- By David Kopf
- Apr 01, 2014
Medtrade Spring
Scheduled for March 10 to 12 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center, Medtrade Spring Conference and Expo will feature plenty of conference sessions and workshops packed with information to help providers build and grow their businesses.
- By Cindy Horbrook
- Mar 06, 2014
Business Solutions
Between competitive bidding, audits and other upheavals, CMS has all but blown up HME's Medicare model. Now, providers and industry leaders are striving to build new business strategies.
- By Joseph Duffy
- Mar 01, 2014
Healthcare firm buys Hackensack, N.J. provider of respiratory, sleep, mobility, other DME.
- By David Kopf
- Feb 20, 2014
Industry Newsmaker
A/R Allegiance’s Keith Lilek has spent nearly his entire professional life engaged in collections for the healthcare market. He's learned from the best and has applied key practices to the HME industry. Lilek shares some of his insights in the run-up to a special Feb. 12 webinar on collecting patient co-pays.
- By David Kopf
- Feb 04, 2014
Third-party auditor says work required before final certification report can be sent to FDA.
- By Laurie Watanabe
- Jan 16, 2014
Editor's Note
CMS's efforts to force competitive bidding on healthcare are about as effective — and error-prone — as installing a the wrong operating system on a computer. Now that Round Two has exposed all the bugs to light, can providers find a feasible work-around?
- By David Kopf
- Jan 01, 2014
2014 Preview
The seventh installment of our annual forecast of key trends, obstacles and opportunities facing the HME provider industry shows that the coming year is one fi lled with challenges, but also chances for providers to reinvigorate their revenues. We examine what’s in store for the next 12 months and how providers should prepare.
- By David Kopf
- Jan 01, 2014
Provider Strategy
Business analytics, once overly-complex, time consuming and costly, have now become simplified and affordable, allowing HME business owners to make sense of the growing piles of data pouring in from a multitude of sources.
- By Gregg Timmons
- Jan 01, 2014
Provider Strategy
Once a tool of large, deep-pocketed corporations, business analytics have grown simplified and affordable, helping HME business owners make sense of mountains of data in order to find ways to overcome funding challenges and uncover pathways toward growth.
- By Gregg Timmons
- Dec 19, 2013
Observation Deck
Understanding how consumers of HME behave online will help shape a winning sales strategy.
- By Dennis Olsen
- Dec 01, 2013
Editor's Note
Providers should take every opportunity to develop and deploy retail sales and marketing campaigns. A good example would be Bath Safety Month coming up in January.
- By David Kopf
- Nov 20, 2013
Editor's Note
- By David Kopf
- Nov 01, 2013
DME provider continues to operate in nine states, still taking patients.
- By David Kopf
- Oct 03, 2013
Provider Strategy
With audits and decreasing reimbursement levels diverting your attention, it can seem more and more difficult to keep the focus on providing the best in patient care, but there are things you can do and products you can add to your “fleet” that will improve your business while enhancing patient care.
- By Brian LaDuke
- Oct 01, 2013
Katrina Lakins joins North Carolina DME provider’s team.
- By David Kopf
- Sep 26, 2013
Products & Technology
As HME providers, owners and operators work to drive as much efficiency as possible in their businesses while seeking out new sources of revenue, they are becoming increasingly number-focused business managers. What are some key datapoints providers should monitor?
- By David Kopf
- Sep 12, 2013
Products & Technology
As HME providers, owners and operators work to drive as much efficiency as possible in their businesses while seeking out new sources of revenue, they are becoming increasingly number-focused business managers. What are some key datapoints providers should monitor?
- By David Kopf
- Sep 01, 2013