Business Management


VGM Fulfillment to Open New Pennsylvania Warehouse

Scheduled for a Sept. 7 opening, the facility will ultimately employ 40 people serving customers in the heavily populated northeastern U.S. corridor.

Podcast

Sleep Therapy: No-Touch Resupply

Resupply sits at the center of sleep therapy providers’ ongoing quest to improve patient outcomes and business efficiencies. Now a new technological approach seeks to take that to the next level. What is it, what’s involved, and what other HME categories could use it?

Podcast

The Delta Variant and HME’s Supply Side

Spectrum Medical’s Steve Ackerman explains how, just as the Delta variant is starting to impact post-acute care, HME providers’ costs have really started ramping up. What can be done?

Q&A

Asking COVID Questions

As the Delta variant heats up, providers are wondering what they can and can’t ask employees and patients about their vaccination status and similar topics. Accrediting expert Sandra Canally, RN and legal expert Brittany Hinton provide some answers.

Prochant Joins the Inc. 5000 List 

Post-acute reimbursement services company makes the list for the first time after posting three-year revenue gains of 112%.

Ability Members Group Adds Four New Locations

The new locations — a mix of new members and an expansion of another member — bring the network of Canadian HME providers closer to its goal of 100 sites.

Tactical Back Office

2021 Industry Innovators

Personnel for Less ... A Lot Less!

Supreme Medical Fulfillment

2021 Industry Innovators

We're a Company of Parents, Not a Parent Company

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Securing Remote HME Patients & Workers

As telehealth and remote connectivity become more prevalent in HME, providers must ensure they’ve locked up their data nice and tight. What are today’s security risks and how do providers counter them?

Podcast

Securing Remote HME Patients & Workers

As telehealth and remote connectivity become more prevalent in HME, providers need ensure they’ve locked up their data nice and tight. What are today's security risks and how do providers counter them?



Supreme Medical Becomes FAHCS Executive Sponsor

The distributor, which will exhibit at the upcoming FAHCS Annual Meeting, emphasized the importance of supporting the Florida association.

Florida Providers Prepping for FAHCS Annual Meeting

The meeting marks the association’s return to in-person events and will run Aug. 5-6 at the Renaissance SeaWorld in Orlando, Fla.

David Kopf

Editor's Note

A Long-Awaited Reunion

After 15 long months of not seeing anyone in the industry in person, it was great to finally get back to Medtrade West, catch up with old friends, and make some new and interesting contacts, as well.

Medtrade West Marks Industry's Return from COVID

Providers return to the western edition of Medtrade, held at the Phoenix convention center July 12-14, which brought a sense of familiarity, as well as some new features and fine tuning.

AAHomecare Update: Leveraging HME’s Value

A central theme at Medtrade’s Wednesday AAHomecare Update will be how the industry can make the most of the value to U.S. healthcare it demonstrated during COVID.

Medtrade West Returns to a New Home with New Features

Medtrade's York Schwab says he's 'excited and hopeful' as the annual industry event for providers in Western states returns with an in-person event next week in Phoenix.

New For Medtrade West: Team@Work's Sales BootCamp

The sales and leadership coaching firm brings its longtime in-depth sales training workshop to Medtrade for the first time, but the value of the program continues well beyond the event.

Registration Opens for Medtrade East

Lowest-possible SmartSaver rates are available until July 17 for the annual HME industry expo and conference , which runs Oct. 18-20 at Atlanta's Georgia World Congress Center.

Supreme Medical Fulfillment Joins GAMES

The HME distributor will showcase its fast delivery turnaround at the Georgia HME association’s upcoming August meeting.

Strategy

2021 HME Business Handbook: Strategy

To Chase or Not To Chase: The 'Shiny Object Conundrum'

New opportunities can be exciting and seem almost irresistible. How does a savvy HME owner and operator distinguish between the 'latest thing' and a legitimate chance to increase revenue?

HME Business Podcast