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  • Medtrade Preview 2004

    First opened in 1979, Medtrade will celebrate its 25th anniversary this year as the largest international trade show for the home health care industry.
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  • We All Share Common Challenges

    I like to think that the home care community is one big family, all in the same boat. We are, of course. But it’s also easy to see the industry as a diverse
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  • Latest HME News

  • CMS Proposes Exam, Drug Pricing Regs

    In the Aug. 5 Federal Register, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced its proposed implementation of two HME provisions of last
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  • What’s going on with e-CMNs

    Electronic document exchange (EDE), including the electronic certificate of medical necessity, or e-CMN, has been inching through the HME pipeline for several years.
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  • Get Out Your Fuzzy Slippers

    One of my favorite television commercials shows a professional woman at a business meeting. When the camera pans down, you see that she is sitting at her kitchen table in fuzzy slippers, looking at a computer screen.
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  • Plugging into HME IT

    What’s the One Product that can help you control your future? Your computer.
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  • HMESA Sets e-Commerce Industry Standards

    E-commerce, encompassing everything from electronic ordering to just-in-time inventory management, has improved supply-chain logistics in various industries–but not HME, at least not on a wide scale.
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  • Decisions, Decisions: Choosing IT and IT Vendors

    While it’s clear that information technology can improve the operations of any HME, the challenge is figuring out how to begin and where to spend your money.
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  • Court Rules CMN Gives All Info

    A California Federal District Court has ruled that a supplier need only use a certificate of medical necessity (CMN) to provide information for the determination
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  • Home Care Gets a Lift

    Manufacturers of lifts, ramps and transfer devices spend a lot of time brooding over how their products coordinate with the other equipment used by home-based
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  • California Court Rules CMN Is Enough

    Redding, Calif. It tells like a John Grisham novel. A small-town provider and a local lawyer with no legal experience in HME bring a case against the
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  • CMS Closes Out DME Committee Applications

    Baltimore Following a July 2 deadline, CMS is going through nominations for potential members who will serve on the DME Program Advisory and Oversight Committee (PAOC). As mandated by the Medicare Modernization Act, the committee will advise the agency on quality and financial standards, data collection strategies and, ultimately, logistics behind the implementation of competitive bidding for DME. “We received a lot of [nominations] during the last hour — a huge stack of them,” a CMS official said. “It will take awhile to get through them all.” He added that at the time the total number of applications the agency received had not been tallied, and that a date had not yet been set for the final selection of committee members. “We’re just gathering names….
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