High-profile wheelchair racer Ernst Van Dyk calls his equipment the most important factor in competing successfully.
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Wheelchairs, scooters and vehicle lifts products, including: Golden Technologies' Golden LiteRider GL100 Scooter; ConvaQuip's 900XL Series Bariatric Manual Wheelchairs; and more.
Retail HME is an obvious path that many in this industry can take to move out from under Medicare's thumb.
CPAP denials are eating into HME revenues.
Winning DME profit margins by the numbers, and what you need to do to make it happen.
What 20 years of ADA means for HME patients and providers.
CMS is proposing a raft of changes for 2011.
Should you say 'N-O?'
It's time to do some spring cleaning in your sales department.
In the first glimmer of hope for mobility providers in a long while, a bill to delay elimination of the first-month purchase option for power wheelchairs could come through as early as this week.
While providers now have ready access to spreadsheet-type data files that list both physicians who are PECOS-registered and those whose registration is pending, the system is clearly still a work in progress.
In announcing its second quarter financial results, Lincare Holdings said it had accepted two oxygen contracts in Round 1 of competitive bidding in Miami and Charlotte. The company bid in all nine MSAs.
CMS has released a competitive bidding fact sheet for referral agents advising that when the program begins in January 2011, beneficiaries located in the nine CBAs must obtain bid items from a contract supplier.
In a recent widespread probe review of post-payment claims for CPAP devices, the Jurisdiction C DME MAC said the review "showed that suppliers are not following published Medicare guidelines and policies
Home oxygen providers will have to run a tight ship and walk a thin line if they are to have any chance of staying in the business under Medicare's new reimbursement rates, industry providers said.
John Shirvinsky thinks something stinks about the Round 1 competitive bidding rates for oxygen.
In an announcement the HME industry has been both waiting to hear and dreading, the CMS has released new payment rates for the Round 1 competitive bidding rebid.
Let's review the results of the DME MAC's prepayment complex medical review of oxygen and oxygen equipment, posted June 8.
Home medical equipment providers had been waiting for weeks on CMS to release the Round 1 rebid rates. But after they heard the July 1 announcement, many said they were struggling to regroup.
Pushing your marketing efforts without falling into a legal pit.
