industry

HME

  • Cashing In on Bath Product Sales

    With Medicare reimbursements continuing a downslide, home medical equipment providers in increasing numbers are looking to cash sales to maintain their
    Read More →: Cashing In on Bath Product Sales

  • Gain One, Lose One

    Atlanta The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has quietly added another city to the list of potential sites for national competitive bidding.
    Read More →: Gain One, Lose One

  • Latest HME News

  • Independent HMEs Muscle Up To NCB

    TAMPA, Fla. With national competitive bidding looming, some HME providers are banking on networks to give them the muscle to compete and to survive. In
    Read More →: Independent HMEs Muscle Up To NCB

  • OIG’s 2007 Work Plan Includes Focus on DME

    Washington In a 94-page document, the HHS Office of Inspector General outlined its work plan for 2007 and said it will look into a number of in Medicare
    Read More →: OIG’s 2007 Work Plan Includes Focus on DME

  • Working Vocabulary

    Each year, lots of new words and phrases make their way into our country’s common speech. When you look at the terms dictionary-keepers and others record
    Read More →: Working Vocabulary

  • The New Power Wheelchair Market

    It might be down, but it’s not out. The power wheelchair segment of the home medical equipment industry took some major hits last year as CMS initiated
    Read More →: The New Power Wheelchair Market

  • Accreditation Rush: It’s Like Russian Roulette

    Baltimore A mid-December meeting between CMS and the industry’s 11 DMEPOS accreditors has sent those organizations and many unaccredited providers scrambling.
    Read More →: Accreditation Rush: It’s Like Russian Roulette

  • CMS Approves DME Accreditors

    Baltimore In late November, CMS announced the names of 11 accrediting organizations approved to accredit DMEPOS providers who want to work in the Medicare
    Read More →: CMS Approves DME Accreditors

  • Scooter Store Lays Off 200

    New Braunfels, Texas The Scooter Store announced last month that it had laid off 200 employees, blaming Medicare’s reimbursement cuts for power mobility
    Read More →: Scooter Store Lays Off 200

  • AAHomecare Joins Coalition to Repeal Competitive Bidding

    Alexandria, Va. The American Association for Homecare has joined other health care stakeholders in forming a coalition to explore the repeal of competitive
    Read More →: AAHomecare Joins Coalition to Repeal Competitive Bidding

  • Psychiatrist Gets Jail Term for Houston PWC Scheme

    Houston A psychiatrist has been sentenced to prison and ordered to pay more than $20 million in restitution for his role in a multi-million-dollar power
    Read More →: Psychiatrist Gets Jail Term for Houston PWC Scheme

  • Draft Competitive Bidding Forms Posted

    Washington Last month, a request for comments on the latest competitive bidding forms was published in the Federal Register, including request for bids
    Read More →: Draft Competitive Bidding Forms Posted

OUR DIGITAL PARTNERS

trending

From Our Partners