HME industry
WATERLOO, Iowa—VGM Group Inc., a service provider in post-acute health care industry, announced that its chief financial officer (CFO), Barb Anderson, and president, Lindy Tentinger, have been named among the 2024 top 50 women leaders of Iowa by Women We Admire—a periodical publishing company that provides news and information on today's wo
BURLINGTON, Ontario—VGM Canada announced Brenlee Mogul-Rotman, national clinical and technical education manager with Permobil, as the winner of the 2024 Canadian HME Woman of the Year Award. The award was presented during the Canadian Seating and Mobility Conference.
CHICAGO—Sunset Healthcare Solutions, a U.S. manufacturer and distributor of home medical equipment (HME) supplies, is celebrating its 20th anniversary.
MANCHESTER, Tennessee—Repair Authority announced today that it has acquired Pitcock Biomedical, a Manchester, Tennessee-based home medical equipment (HME) repair provider. This deal expands Repair Authority’s ability to provide repair services of stationary and portable oxygen concentrators, CPAPs, ventilators, home fill devices and other respiratory equipment in the Southeast U.S. and beyond.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (September 29, 2017)—In less than 24 hours from Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price’s September 28, 2017 statement of regret and correction over recent taxpayer funded travel, the man whom some pinned high homecare industry reform hopes on resigned.
—Via AAHomecare, WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 7, 2017)—With the publishing of the fee schedule by CMS, the HME industry is still awaiting the Department of Defense Health plans and timeline for implementing the Cures Act.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (August, 26, 2015)—The American Association for Homecare (AAHomecare) today released an analysis of the Office of Medicare Hearing and Appeals (OMHA) appeals backlog, using data available on the OMHA website. The analysis has uncovered that in spite of reports from OMHA indicating improvement, in the first half of 2015, the wait time has increased by nearly 25 percent, with June posting an average processing time of 714.9 days.