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HME

  • 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
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  • 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
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  • Latest HME News

  • 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.
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • A Call to Action

    Too often, HME providers neglect to anticipate that anything untoward might happen. But it does! Between hurricanes, fires, tornados and the other threats
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  • Committed to the Cause

    Dan Meuser grew up in the HME business and has been involved with Pride Mobility Products Corp. in an official capacity for more than 18 years. But it
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  • 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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  • Fresh Start, First Steps

    The power shift from the Republicans to the Democrats in the U.S. House and Senate offers the chance for a fresh start for home care in 2007. Home care
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