VGM Signs 10-Year Deal with Brightree

DULUTH, Ga., and WATERLOO, IOWA–Last week The VGM Group and
Brightree, an HME business services company, announced an exclusive
10-year partnership that will deliver an array of Internet-centric
services to providers.

“Through this partnership, we intend to create a large, virtual
VGM/Brightree ‘community’ that can leverage a wealth of services
that no individual provider could ever assemble alone,” said VGM
President Ron Bendell.

According to the companies, the deal encompasses VGM’s
Nationwide Respiratory, US Rehab and O&P organizations OPGA and
POINT. The two organizations said they “will form a virtual
ecosystem for HME/DME providers” through an Internet-based system
that will connect them with manufacturers, Medicare, private payers
and outsourcing partners.

Among the new services envisioned, Brightree and VGM will
deliver key performance metrics allowing providers to benchmark
their operations. Such “at-a-glance” tools will be delivered via
executive dashboards and other types of “push” technologies, and
will utilize actual data in Brightree and proprietary VGM
information from VGM Homelink referral tools, group e-purchasing,
billing and collections metrics, consulting best practices and
regulatory compliance tools.

“By making a long-term commitment to each other, we can
accelerate the pace of introduction and significantly raise the bar
on the products and services that we deliver to our customers,”
said Brightree President and CEO Dave Comack.

According to Van G. Miller, VGM founder, “The bottom line–we
are all overwhelmed by the pace of change in today’s marketplace.
The future solutions we’ll create with Brightree will make
everyone’s life easier.”