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  • Competitive Bidding: The PAOC Perspective

    When President Bush signed the Medicare Modernization Act (MMA) in December 2003, the nation focused on the law’s unprecedented prescription drug benefit for Medicare. But buried in the mammoth legal document is a provision mandating competitive bidding for DME.
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  • Tired-Less Efforts

    His title may be vice president of marketing for the Americas at San Diego-based ResMed, but Ron F. Richard is also a tireless advocate for home care.
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  • Latest HME News

  • Hoveround Opens Retail Location in Wal-Mart

    Sarasota, Fla. Hoveround Corp. opened its first retail location in a St. Petersburg, Fla., Wal-Mart Supercenter last month. Between 150,000 and 200,000
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  • Invacare Lowers ’05 Expectations

    Elyria, Ohio Invacare has lowered its earnings per share guidance for 2005, citing Medicare reimbursement policies for power wheelchairs and slower purchasing
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  • In Brief

    The next meeting of the Program Advisory and Oversight Committee (PAOC), charged with advising CMS on implementing competitive bidding in 2007, is scheduled
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  • Otto Bock Acquires OrthoRehab

    Minneapolis Otto Bock HealthCare has acquired Tempe, Ariz.-based OrthoRehab, an orthopedic rehabilitation services company. Otto Bock produces prosthetic
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  • Bring Equipment, and They Will Come

    Physical Therapist Barbara Crane has always found it difficult to explain her job. She says that the English language can only paint broad brush strokes
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  • A Managed-Care State of Mind

    A first glance at Dallas Oxygen reveals a typical HME business: a 21-employee, two-branch operation that provides oxygen and medical equipment to the
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  • Putting a Human Face on Rehab

    It’s hard to pigeonhole rehabilitation. An auto-accident victim might have different needs than an elderly patient who has suffered a stroke. One wheelchair
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  • Florida HME Accreditation Bill Introduced

    Tallahassee, Fla. A Florida state house bill was introduced last month that would require the state’s HME providers to become accredited in order to obtain
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  • Details, Details

    Caring for patients in the home is all in the details, according to leading HME manufacturers. Beyond the wheelchair or the oxygen concentrator, there
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  • DME Prior Approval Requests Slow to a Crawl

    New York Since the New York State Health Department closed the Medicaid Manhattan office and transferred the work to the central office in Albany in November,
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