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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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.
What’s the One Product that can help you control your future? Your computer.
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.
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.
Selling is a complicated and difficult process. It requires not only the right preparation but also the ability to become involved in several tasks during
Diabetic shoes and inserts definitely do not the Cinderella story. Providers have always been responsible in supplying the shoes and inserts that are
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
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
Washington The Federal Aviation Administration has proposed a regulation that could alleviate air travel headaches for those using portable oxygen concentrators.
HomeCare is accepting nominations for the magazine's 2004 HomeCaring Awards. Cosponsored by Medtrade, these prestigious awards honor those whose dedication
Sacramento, Calif. The California Association of Medical Product Suppliers (CAMPS) has filed for legal injunction to stop Medicaid reimbursement cuts
Tallahassee, Fla. As preparations for competitive bidding on Medicaid DME move forward in the Sunshine State, the program will have a new director. Tom
A key to climbing the second rung on our ROPE Ladder is to formalize your company's training activities. If your training tools include well-run teaching
Can you contemplate what would happen to our business if suddenly the government decided to cancel Medicare? I brought this topic up at a recent meeting
In mid-June, Mark Junge from Cheyenne, Wyo., left on his summer vacation. Nothing unusual in that, except that on this trip, the 61-year-old is peddling
In answer to requests from both government officials and industry stakeholders, the National Supplier Clearinghouse has drafted new written guidance for
During an election season and this is a big one candidates and the press all have their ears to the ground, listening for the footsteps of the Big Issues.
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
At least one person I know says that God created consultants on the eighth day so someone could tell us that there are bad ways to do good things. Cutting
For the past several years, providers have searched endlessly for a solution to qualifying their oxygen patients. No solution seemed possible until this
Washington According to NCART, the National Coalition for Assistive and Rehab Technology, the only way for CMS to adequately control abuse and ensure