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Operations

Operational guidance for HME and home health businesses, from inventory and logistics to workflow and efficiency.

  • Integrated Business Systems

    HME/DME providers embrace new resources to streamline operations
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  • No More Whistleblowers

    “The 21 Benefits of an Effective Compliance Program” series continues
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  • CMS Proposes Three-Year Life for DME

    CMS published a proposed rule in the Federal Register that would establish a three-year “minimum lifetime standard for items to meet the durability criterion for DME.”
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  • No About-Face on the Face-to-Face

    In a perplexing turn, CMS issued a proposed rule that requires a face-to-face exam by a physician who orders home health services under Medicaid. The proposal also requires a face-to-face encounter for DME
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  • Time to Do a Disaster Review

    Fires, floods, tornadoes and who knows what’s next? Solid preparedness plans and the right insurance can make all the difference.
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  • Standards of Behavior (Part 2)

    Beware the minefields in new Medicare supplier standards.
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  • Make Sure Who You Hire

    Are you routinely checking the OIG’s list of excluded individuals or entities (the LEIE)?
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  • Medicare Turns to Tech to Get Ahead of Fraud

    On July 1, CMS will begin using predictive modeling technology to help fight Medicare fraud, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and agency officials announced.
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  • CMS to Hold 5010 Test Day June 15

    In a number of recent notices, CMS reminded that the Version 5010 compliance date — Jan. 1, 2012 — is coming up fast.
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  • E0260 Semi-electric hospital bed with mattress

    This month in our DME MAC comparison, Jurisdiction C barely made it out of the No. 1 spot and has turned over the title to Jurisdiction D for claim denials
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  • Do You Look Like Big Bird?

    Are you ready for that all-important sales call? Are the new business cards in the brief case? Do you have enough brochures for everyone who will be attending the meeting? Do you know exactly where the meeting is and where you intend to park your car? You are almost ready to go once you take that extra step: a quick but serious look in the mirror. That wild and crazy outfit you wore to the beach party on Saturday is just not going to work. The yellow suit may be okay if you want to look like Big Bird, but it may not be appropriate for your meeting with the directors of the new cancer center. The health care industry is a rather conservative environment….
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  • Quality Counts

    When it comes to being successful in the manual wheelchair market, quality is “job one,” to borrow a quote from Ford Motor Co. The quality of products affects the market’s sales, innovations, reimbursement structure — and reputation. Providers should not “chase low-cost products specifically for the sake of money. If they do, they are [providing a disservice to the disabled community] along with creating a more-difficult [reimbursement] environment, which costs society more in the long run,” says John Box, president of Colours in Motion. A Mature Market Why does high quality count for so much in this particular market? Perhaps because there are many opportunities for low-quality products to make it to end-users. “The manual wheelchair market is a mature market that is increasingly becoming…
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