COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (Dec. 10, 2013)—InnoMed Technologies, Inc., a medical equipment manufacturer of respiratory and sleep interface products for use in hospitals, institutions and home care settings, announced that they have launched a new full face mask, the Aspen.
Compact, quiet, lightweight and affordable, this new full-face mask features a forehead pad with a SoftTouch Wrap.
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MURRYSVILLE, Pa. (Dec. 10, 2013)—Philips Respironics continues efforts to improve therapy options for sleep apnea patients with the industry’s first and only gel pillows mask. The world leader in gel cushion technology brings the comfort and sealing power of gel to nasal pillows.
DALLAS, Texas (Dec. 3, 2013)—A new video produced by People for Quality Care, an organization dedicated to ensuring quality, innovation, and service for Medicare beneficiaries, features Dallas-area residents with disabilities currently fighting for the wheelchairs and supplies they need to live life to the fullest.
Recently implemented Medicare rules have created extremely tedious documentation regulations that are difficult for physicians, therapists, and providers to follow.
LAS VEGAS (Dec. 9, 2013)—Early bird registration for Medtrade Spring is officially open, and those who register now will see substantial savings.
Medtrade Spring starts in about three months, but hundreds of exhibitors and thousands of attendees are already making plans to head to the Nevada desert for the March 10-12 show.
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (Dec. 6, 2013)—Camellia Home Health and Hospice of Hattiesburg, Miss. is lowering operating costs and providing clinical team members an added benefit by providing 105 brand new, eco-boost Ford Focus models and 20 Ford Escapes. As a result, employees will no longer have to seek reimbursement from the company for mileage driven in their personal cars.
NEW YORK, N.Y. and SOUTH DAYTONA, Fla. (Dec.
DALLAS, Texas (Dec. 10, 2013)—Since DMEPOS Competitive Bidding Program Round 2 winners were announced, health care attorney and commercial litigator, Edward Vishnevetsky, has received dozens of calls and emails from clients inquiring about a work-around whereby a non-contract supplier can access a contract supplier’s contract by buying five percent of the stock of the contract supplier.
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—Somnetics International, Inc., the Minneapolis-based maker of Transcend Sleep Apnea Therapy System announced earlier this year that it received CE Mark for new sleep apnea therapy products Transcend Auto auto-adjusting positive airway pressure (APAP) device and the Transcend EZEX continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) fixed-pressure device, for distribution throughout Europe.
The Transcend Auto APAP and the Transcend EZEX CPAP are the world’s smallest, lightest and most i
WASHINGTON (Dec. 11, 2013)—Ask your senators to support amendments to fix the disastrous Medicare bidding program.
Key members of Congress advised AAH recently that the best chance they have of reducing the tremendous burden of the Medicare bidding program on providers and their patients is to develop fixes based on the industry solution—the market pricing program.
(Dec. 2, 2013)—KRG Capital Partners of Denver announced Monday that Daniel E. Greenleaf will become president and CEO of Home Solutions, a specialty infusion company, effective immediately.
Greenleaf most recently served as president and CEO of Coram Specialty Infusion Services.
SAN DIEGO (Dec. 5, 2013)—Staying on therapy for sleep apnea can be a challenge for some, and it helps to have a partner. In the past 12 months, Wake Up to Sleep, ResMed’s online sleep apnea support community, has become that partner for tens of thousands of patients by providing the tools they need to stick with this life-saving therapy.
WASHINGTON (Dec. 4, 2013)—AAHomecare strives to provide tools that assist home care providers in managing their businesses within the framework of complicated Medicare requirements. As a part of this goal, the Association’s Regulatory Council has created five processing checklists to assist both members and nonmembers in avoiding audits.
ADDISON, Texas (Dec. 4, 2013)—HASCO Medical, Inc., a company that conducts sales of handicap accessible vans, parts, service and rental operations in eighteen locations from Maine to Florida and sales of medical equipment and supplies in Florida, today announced receiving orders for approximately 80 wheelchair accessible taxi cabs to be deployed in the New York City market.
In mid-November the city of New York released 200 ADA medallions for auction to taxi owners.
SPARTA, N.J. (Dec. 3, 2013)—For the sixth year, the National Council of Certified Dementia Practitioners and International Council of Certified Dementia Practitioners is offering the Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia Care Staff Education Week, Feb. 14-21, with free staff training, in-services and tool kit. The tool kit and in-services are free and available at nccdp.org.
WEBB CITY, Mo. (Dec. 3, 2013)—DETECTO’s new USA-made model 7550 wall-mount wheelchair scale features a unique fold-up storage design that saves space when not in use. With its spacious 32.3-inch W x 33-inch D folding platform extended, the 7550 easily accommodates most wheelchairs. The slim 6.6-inch profile takes up minimal space when installed in a confined medical facility hallway, clinical office or patient room.
BOCA RATON, Fla. (Dec. 3, 2013)—A1A Access Solutions, known for supplying the Emit Night Time Monitor, has launched the new all-in-one PAC-1 Air Sanitizer and Purifier. Unlike any other model on the market, the PAC-1 purifies and sanitizes the air by eliminating allergens and killing viruses.
Simply plug in the unit and press the power button and you’ll have instant access to clean air.
MINNEAPOLIS (Nov. 17, 2013)—Federal health officials say that defects in some Medtronic devices used in heart procedures are severe enough that they could cause serious injury or death.
The warning covers about 15,000 recalled guidewires, which are inserted through an artery and used to guide other devices into place, such as stents to hold open blocked arteries.
A recall of the guidewires began Oct.