LESSONS FROM Toyota

BY CHRISTOPHER CALDERONE, MA, MBA

Toyota has built a solid reputation as a world-class production and manufacturing organization through the application of quality principles referred...

Hold Your Nose

Gail Walker gwalker@homecaremag.com

Who takes an umbrella to Orlando? Not me, and I got drenched walking from a breakfast meeting across the street to the Orange County Convention Center...

Notable & Quotable

At Medtrade 2007's kickoff video keynote, Reps. John Tanner, D-Tenn., and David Hobson, R-Ohio, authors of H.R. 1845 which would allow all qualified providers...

HME Headlines

Check the HomeCare Monday archives atwww.homecaremonday.com for these and other industry headlines: Provider's Complaint Prompts Call for Audit of Medi-Cal...

Working Down Denials with Sarah Hanna

This month we look at the ever-discouraging and challenging CO35 denial: lifetime benefit maximum has been reached. This code states that Medicare has...

Results of the October 2007 HomeCare Web Poll

Results of the October 2007 HomeCare Web Poll ...

The Sleeper of the Season?

By Patricia-Anne Tom

Fears of competitive bidding, narrowing reimbursements and increased regulation have loomed large in the beds and support surfaces market, but the effects...

Scooters

Cosco Home and Office 4 Wheel Scooter five-piece disassembly for transport; heaviest piece 32 pounds swivel seat for transfers; flat-free tires 4.7-mph...

TRENDS

The trends I see are that transportability always seems to be the most important feature in people's minds. The scooter isn't really going to be used...

Finding Mr. Wright

By Wayne Stanfield

At a dinner party at his home, Frank Lloyd Wright asked to hear a Mozart piece played for a fourth time, much to the dismay of the guests. A family member...

Be Warned and Be Careful

By Neil Caesar

On Aug. 27, CMS issued its Phase III revisions to the Stark Law regulations. One of these changes in particular affects the relationship between physicians...

My Experiences in Rotary

By Shelly Prial

For more than 20 years, I have tried to practice what Rotary teaches. To my very pleasant surprise, I heard from a good number of HomeCare readers about...

A Call to Action

With a rash of legislative bills that would impact the industry in flux in Congress, attendees at Medtrade 2007, held Oct. 2-4 in Orlando, Fla., heard...

The Importance of Service

By Cara C. Bachenheimer, Esq.

Tucked away in committee report language accompanying the CHAMP (Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act of 2007) bill, is a mandate for the Department...

The Mortgage Crisis

By Wallace Weeks

Are the nation's current mortgage industry crisis and home care connected? You bet. And the really frustrating thing about the situation is that HME companies...

First Impressions

By Louis Feuer, MA, MSW

Mary Johnson decided to find a local home medical equipment store to shop for her mother. She thought buying a bath seat would help, but she was not exactly...

Life's Constants

By Jane Bunch

For years, there has been a debate about the three constants of life. The main two, death and taxes, are universally accepted, but the third has always...

Deadlines and Details

By Mary Ellen Conway, RN, BSN

Providers who focus on the deadlines and not the details of the accreditation process can face an insurmountable level of deficiencies. When HME companies...

Adding Clout

By Tyler Wilson

Our industry faces the recurring threat in Congress to eliminate a patient's option under Medicare to purchase a power wheelchair during the first month...

Heads Up

Sports fans and medical professionals alike are following the recovery of Buffalo Bills pro-footballer Kevin Everett, who suffered a catastrophic spinal...

NEW PRODUCTS

Wenzelite Rehab/Seat Accessory Nimbo Seat can be mounted to Nimbo Posture Walker and also fits on size-appropriate Kaye four-wheeled posture control walkers...