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Author: Tom Gray

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  • January 1, 2007

    Will a New Congress Reshuffle the Deck?

    Fee schedules, rental caps, competitive bidding. These issues were on the minds of home medical equipment providers when 2006 began. They were still there
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  • October 1, 2006

    Show them the Money

    Any business, not just those in home medical equipment, comes to recognize sooner or later that there’s no substitute for skilled, motivated employees.
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  • February 1, 2006

    Waiting to Exhale

    The squeeze is on for providers of oxygen and inhalation therapy drugs. The respiratory side of the home medical equipment industry, long considered one
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  • November 1, 2005

    Are You Covered?

    Natural disasters have a way of changing business priorities. Before one, insurance may be the last thing on your mind. Afterwards, it’s bound to be near
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  • September 1, 2005

    Closing the Compensation Gap

    Businesses are constantly on the lookout for economies of scale, which is why mergers and acquisitions are routine events. Getting bigger, merging home
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  • August 1, 2005

    The eHealth Connection

    America’s health care industry may have many marvels, but information technology is not one of them. By the standards of most other industries, it is
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  • April 1, 2005

    Year of Reform Year of Risk

    Business on Capitol Hill has a way of slowing down in presidential election years. As partisan feeling rises, the big issues tend to get put on hold.
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  • October 1, 2004

    2004 Salary Survey

    As anyone in the home medical equipment business soon learns, while the equipment is a critical part of the HME package, it has a companion. The industry
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  • September 1, 2004

    Bush, Kerry and Their Health Care Plans

    The home health industry has learned a few things about Washington and politics over the years. One is that presidential candidates usually have little
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