Washington In March, members of the House Ways and Means Health and Oversight subcommittee convened a Medicare program integrity hearing to ask law enforcement
An analysis by the congressional Joint Commission on Taxation found that President Bush's health care reform plan would increase taxes by $333.6 billion
Baltimore In March, CMS introduced its DMEPOS Competitive Bidding Implementation Contractor Web site. To be administered by Palmetto GBA, the designated
Many successful HME providers have maintained a certain work plan when it comes to providing oxygen therapy: Take care of the patient first and figure
I just finished four months of physical therapy. The experience was eye-opening. Not the therapy itself (thankfully that turned out to be successful),
Atlanta The possibility that CMS might expand its sleep-testing policy to include in-home sleep studies has generated talk of enticing opportunities for
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few months, you know it’s time to move on accreditation—even if you won’t be involved in Medicare competitive bidding this year.
Mark Twain said, There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. No doubt, numbers can be twisted to distort the truth, but in the case
With just a little over a year before implementation, the Rehabilitation Engineering & Assistive Technology Society of North America is cranking up its