Top 15 Articles

2015 was a tumultuous year of legislative changes and anxiety. From competitive bidding to ICD-10, HomeCare Magazine stayed on top of the action throughout the year, and our top stories reflect readers' interest in these important topics. Readers also wanted to know about the best ways to help their businesses thrive in the challenging HME market, from “Business Practices That Will Get You Investigated” to “Creating Sales Magic.” HomeCare readers were most interested in stories with strong business-management strategies in the face of a demanding regulatory environment. Read more

Top 15 Columns

HomeCare’s columns are our way of providing our readers with short bits of expert advice. The top columns from 2015 reflect the entrepreneurial spirit of our readers. HME/DME providers searching for new ways to compete in the market latched on to our “7 New Opportunities for Today’s DME Entrepreneur” and our “5 Reasons to Invest in the DME Market Now” columns. Other top columns reflect the desire of our readers to stay on top of 2015’s regulatory changes such at ICD-10 and competitive bidding’s threats to complex rehab providers. Read more

Top 15 News Articles

The busy 2015 legislative season kept HME/DME providers on their toes. HomeCare was here to cover every second of it. The top news stories of 2015 reflect the anxiety the industry felt about Competitive Bidding and new CMS guidelines. Readers can be sure in 2016, HomeCare will be here to cover any updates that occur. Read more

Top 15 Products

Each month, HomeCare takes a look at some of the latest and most innovative products on the market. We also seek out market experts in various segments to provide insight and guidance into reimbursement, retail marketing, regulations and more. Our top 15 product categories from 2015 are diverse and show readers’ growing interest in retail products over Medicare reimbursable items. However, as our top product category, Portable Oxygen, reveals, Medicare reimbursable items still make up a large segment of the market. Read more

Top 15 Aging in Place Articles

Getting older. It’s not something most of us like to think about. But when we do, most of would agree that we would prefer to do it at home. Aging in place is a growing market segment for the HME industry and the booming home health industry. The top aging in place stories for 2015 largely reflect the need for designing (or redesigning) accessible homes as people age, and how providers can step into that space. Medical alert/PERS concerns also made the list, as ensuring seniors have a means of communication in an emergency is a great need. To be sure, with the aging of the baby boomers, aging in place concerns are not fading any time soon. Read more

Do you have ideas for topics we should cover in 2016? Email Editor Stephanie Lepore at slepore@cahabamedia.com.