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How to Provide a Range of Services that Supports Bariatric Patients

As more and more people fit the definition of being obese, the increase in the need for bariatric equipment rises as well.

How to Match Mattress Types to Patient Wound Care Needs

The population of bariatric patients is increasing, and so to is the need for providers to sell mattresses that prevent and help treat wounds for patients that spend a good deal of time in bed.

How to Prepare for Round Two of Competitive Bidding

Round one has given providers some insights on what they need to do to prepare for Round Two.

How to Help Patients Comply with Compression Treatment

Helping patients comply with compression therapy requires understanding, application, comfort, appearance and price.

MSO Buying Group Membership

Today’s HME MSOs have evolved to offer much more than just group purchasing. How can providers make the most of their memberships?

How to Help New Diabetes Patients Better Manage Their Condition

Newly diagnosed diabetes patients need lots of assistance to ensure compliance. How can providers give it to them?

How Oxygen Providers Can Implement Business Practices for Today’s Funding Environment

With the rental cap, audits and competitive bidding, providers need to closely examine their businesses to bolster margins.

How to Ensure Accreditation Renewal Goes Smoothly

Whatever the reason for renewing accreditation, now is the time to start preparing to ensure the process goes smoothly.

How to Leverage Your Software for Strategic Planning

With today's funding cuts, the data generated by HME software can show you your strengths, as well as where you might be able to cut and save some precious operating dollars.

How to Help Oxygen Patients Use Their POCs Properly

As POCs have gained acceptance and usage — sometimes as a primary oxygen device — the need to ensure patients truly understand their devices is essential.



How Power Mobility HMEs can Become Rental Businesses

Now that the standard power mobility business has been turned upside-down, what can providers do to transition to a new business model?

How to Boost your Retail Sales Performance

Now more than ever, providers must pursue cash sales. What are some key elements of a smart retail business?

The Waiting Game

RSM’s 2011 annual oxygen market analysis shows providers in a holding pattern.

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Products & Technology

In the Palm of Their Hands

Pushing their software gains beyond the confines of the desktop, HMEs are starting to use solutions for handheld devices that delivery drivers and other staff can take into the field with them.

CMS Audits: The Dam Has Burst

Providers have found themselves in a torrent of pre- and post-payment audits. What can they do?

Best Business Practices for Sleep

RSM spoke to experts in the sleep industry to compile best practices that can help providers navigate through a changing industry.

Profit Centers

Business Solutions

Building New Profit Centers

In an industry shaken by cuts, caps and competitive bidding, providers are revisiting their entrepreneurial roots to uncover ways of bringing in more non-reimbursement business. Two key areas for that expansion are compression and orthopedic goods.

HME Delivery Management

Products & Technology

The Delivery Management Maze

As providers try to find their way through a maze of funding threats, they are striving to find new efficiencies and cut costs in order to boost their ever-narrowing margins. A key cost center in this regard is delivery operations. What tools and technologies are available to help HMEs chart a course to increased profitability?

New Regulatory Reality

Business Solutions

The New Regulatory Reality

Four months into Round One, how are contract holders and providers that lost bids coping? Have mobility providers re-tooled to survive the loss of the first month purchase option. Most important: how can the industry fight back?

CPAP therapy

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Welcome to The Comfort Zone

Ensuring comfort for CPAP patients to ensure the adhere to treatment.

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