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  • HME Advocate Schwarz Defeated in Michigan Primary

    Lansing, Mich. Michigan Rep. Joe Schwarz, considered a champion for HME after authoring a bill to prevent home oxygen cuts, lost his House seat in the
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  • Medtrade 2006

    Kick Off the Show with What You Need to Know There will be more than 800 exhibitors with new products on display, but this year’s Medtrade attendees will
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  • CMS Scales Back Quality Standards

    Baltimore CMS whittled more than 100 pages of proposed requirements down to 14 in its final version of Medicare supplier quality standards released last
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  • Are Your CSRs Doing Their Best Job?

    I’ve been in this industry for 30 years now, and I have lost track of how many major changes have occurred. Policies are put in place, modified, rescinded
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  • Manufacturers Say PMD Product Classification List is Inaccurate

    Baltimore Stakeholders said a new power mobility product classification list released by the SADMERC is riddled with errors, but they are hopeful that
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  • The Upside of Outsourcing and Its Other Side

    Mike Walsh, president of Norcross, Ga.-based LifeGas, got an earful at the last Medtrade. Walsh’s medical gas distribution company surveyed about 300
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  • Industry Critical of New Power Mobility LCD

    Columbia, S.C. Stakeholders said they are concerned that in an effort to save Medicare dollars, the final local coverage determinations for power mobility
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  • Stay Connected

    Every day it seems we are bombarded with changes from Medicare. I cannot remember a day that has gone by that I have not opened up multiple e-mail messages
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  • Size Matters

    The market for pediatric home medical equipment has a great deal of potential for providers willing to put in the effort. Consider the patient base: children,
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  • Downsize Those DSOs

    Average Medicare DSO (Days Sales Outstanding) By Product Category DME (E0260, K0001, E0143, etc.) 58.5 Respiratory (E1390, J7619, E7619, etc.) 44.8 Rehab
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  • TRENDS

    As many as 33 million Americans are affected by incontinence, 85 percent of whom are women.Source: Simon Foundation & National Association for Continence
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  • Medtrade 2006 Sneak Peek

    To say these are changing times in the home medical equipment industry is a huge understatement. Fortunately, along with the changing environment, better,
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