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  • Diary of a Retail HME Start-Up

    After more than a year of planning and work, Allstar Medical Supply held its grand opening in May.
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  • Good News Soon for Power Wheelchair Sector?

    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.
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  • No ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ Card on the PECOS

    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.
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  • Lincare Signs Oxygen Contracts in Miami, Charlotte

    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.
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  • Bidding Fact Sheet for Referral Sources

    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.
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  • ‘Lessons Learned’ from E0601 Claims Review

    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
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  • Oxygen Rates Put Providers in a ‘Lose-Lose’ Situation

    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.
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  • PAMS’ Shirvinsky: Oxygen Rates are Foul Business

    John Shirvinsky thinks something stinks about the Round 1 competitive bidding rates for oxygen.
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  • Round 1 Rebid Cuts Average 32%

    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.
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  • The View from 30,000 Feet

    Accreditation has taken off. Where do we stand, and what’s coming next?
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  • HME Products

    Various HME products, including: Asa Products’ Mobo Shift; Homecare Products’ EZ-BATHE Inflatable Bathtub; Invacare’s FDX; Pride Mobility Products Corp.’s LC-900 Media Lift Chair; and more.
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  • How I Spent My Summer Vacation

    Then CMS ditched a reported June 25 deadline for release of the Round 1 bid rates, and my summer vacation suddenly went south.
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