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  • Criteria Demands Detail

    Medicare coverage of powered mobility equipment, such as power wheelchairs, will change significantly in the coming months as the Centers for Medicare
    Read More →: Criteria Demands Detail

  • Forget Competitive Bidding

    For the next five minutes, try to forget about competitive bidding, FEHBP (Federal Employees Health Benefit Plan) adjustments and all of the other provisions
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  • 10 Product Points to Know

    When selling home medical equipment, the consumer/patient is counting on you to be his medical product adviser, so it is important to become an educated
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  • New Products

    Golden Technologies/Bariatric Lift Recliner Super 33 700-pound weight capacity; 33 inches between arms features three motors and a quiet lifting system;
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  • Ideas for Medtrade?

    For over a decade, I have had the privilege of watching the home medical equipment industry serve patients in a way that has enabled them to remain independent
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  • Lincare Buys Kansas City, New England HMEs

    Clearwater, Fla. Officials at Lincare have confirmed the acquisition of several HMEs. In January, Lincare acquired the medical division branches of Charlestown,
    Read More →: Lincare Buys Kansas City, New England HMEs

  • Mobility Stakeholders Await New Guidelines

    Baltimore As the comment period recently ended within Medicare’s National Coverage Determination process for wheelchairs, mobility stakeholders recommended
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  • Providers Accused of Bilking Medicare of $27 Million

    Dallas In the latest power wheelchair scheme to come out of Texas, a federal grand jury has indicted three wheelchair supply company owners, charging
    Read More →: Providers Accused of Bilking Medicare of $27 Million

  • 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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  • Do You Need More Sleep?

    While the industry’s focus and most of its headlines were on the mobility sector last year, providers told HomeCare they are pinning their hopes on continued
    Read More →: Do You Need More Sleep?

  • Q&A With Hoveround’s Tom Kruse

    When you turn onto Whitfield Industrial Way in Sarasota, Fla., you’re turning into Hoveround territory. In an unassuming industrial park, Hoveround Corp.,
    Read More →: Q&A With Hoveround’s Tom Kruse

  • They’re Listening

    In mid-December, CMS made announcements on several hot-button issues that home medical equipment providers had been waiting for all year. On Dec. 15,
    Read More →: They’re Listening

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