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SKOKIE, Illinois—Synapse Health, a provider that aims to advance the durable medical equipment (DME) industry toward value-based care, announced the appointment of Mandira Singh as president. Singh, who first joined Synapse in August as a senior advisor, now joins an expanding executive team that is committed to modernizing the DME ecosystem to better serve patients, prescribers and DME provider partners.

Delay offers suppliers additional time to understand the new process and requirements

The American Association for Homecare (AAHomecare) reported that UnitedHealthcare (UHC) recently notified suppliers of its plans to delay implementation of substantially revised HME order and fulfillment processes for DME for members of their Medicare Advantage (MA) plans who are enrolled in HMO and PPO products in North Carolina and Georgia. The implementation date is being moved back one month, from August 1 to September 1.