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August 1, 1999
Coming Up for Air
Aug 1, 1999 12:00 PM,
Susanne Hopkins
AFTER SEVERAL YEARS OF INCREASING COMPETITION, PRICE WARS AND MEDICARE OXYGEN REIMBURSEMENT CUTS, MANUFACTURERS OF OXYGEN CONCENTRATORS ARE FINALLY STARTING...
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Clinton's Medicare Plan: More Competitive Bidding
Aug 1, 1999 12:00 PM,
HOMECARE MAGAZINE STAFF
Washington President Clinton released a Medicare reform proposal that included a limited prescription drug benefit for all Medicare recipients yet would...
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IN SHORT...
Aug 1, 1999 12:00 PM,
HOMECARE MAGAZINE STAFF
1998 Medicare Payments for Concentrators Down $311 Million Baltimore-Oxygen concentrators topped last year's list of highest paying Medicare codes, but...
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Provider News
Aug 1, 1999 12:00 PM,
HOMECARE MAGAZINE STAFF
Part of Criminal Inquiry Into Apria Healthcare Group Closed Costa Mesa, Calif. The U.S. Attorney's office in Sacramento, Calif., has closed a yearlong...
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Manufacturer News
Aug 1, 1999 12:00 PM,
HOMECARE MAGAZINE STAFF
Graham-Field Loses, Gains CFO Bay Shore, N.Y. Troubled Graham-Field Health Products lost a senior vice president and chief financial officer and gained...
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Infusion Therapy
Aug 1, 1999 12:00 PM,
Olivia Chadha
INFLUENCED BY THE MOMENTUM OF THE FEDERAL HEALTH CARE WORKER NEEDLESTICK PREVENTION ACT INTRODUCED IN CONGRESS IN MAY, INFUSION THERAPY MANUFACTURERS...
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The Meaning of a 'Month'
Aug 1, 1999 12:00 PM,
Valerie J. Nelson
"HOW MANY DAYS are in a month?" That's a question Gladys Russell posed for so many months that she managed to move a small mountain: She got a Medicaid...
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Two Words That Go a Long Way
Aug 1, 1999 12:00 PM,
Kimberly Schworm
JUST TWO YEARS AGO, Beckett HealthCare's revenue was between $7 million and $8 million. The provider now tops $37 million-an increase the company largely...
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Patient Delivery Ticket Can Communicate Changes
Aug 1, 1999 12:00 PM,
HOMECARE MAGAZINE STAFF
Are we obligated to print our charges for equipment and services on the delivery ticket that we ask the patient to sign? OF COURSE, WE could ask the obvious...
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Providers Speak Up About Oryx
Aug 1, 1999 12:00 PM,
HOMECARE MAGAZINE STAFF
RIGHT ON THE HEELS of HomeCare Magazine's June 1999 report on accreditation in the home medical equipment industry come the results of a survey by Van...
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Concentrators on the Go?
Aug 1, 1999 12:00 PM,
HOMECARE MAGAZINE STAFF
STUART BASSINE, president of OxLife, remembers when concentrators weighed 247 pounds. That was 20 years ago, when the first concentrators began rolling...
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Bill Would Push HCFA To Keep Pace With Technology
Aug 1, 1999 12:00 PM,
HOMECARE MAGAZINE STAFF
Washington In what could be a boon to patients, the Health Care Financing Administration would be required to update more frequently its payment and coding...
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Back to the Future
Aug 1, 1999 12:00 PM,
HOMECARE MAGAZINE STAFF
WITH THE EXCEPTION of the at-home transfilling systems introduced within the last two years by Invacare and Chad, little has changed in concentrators...
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Taking the measure of the Women's Market
Aug 1, 1999 12:00 PM,
Megan Flaherty
HOME MEDICAL PROVIDERS have millions of compelling reasons to make women's health their business. About 105 million, to be exact.According to May 1999...
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The Real Competition
Aug 1, 1999 12:00 PM,
HOMECARE MAGAZINE STAFF
IF YOU THOUGHT other home medical equipment providers were your only competition, here's a heads-up: In women's health, you're also competing against...
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Briefly Noted
Aug 1, 1999 12:00 PM,
HOMECARE MAGAZINE STAFF
NDC Health Information Services, Atlanta, has signed an agreement to market Fort Worth, Texas-based Health Care Computer's home medical equipment management...
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People News
Aug 1, 1999 12:00 PM,
HOMECARE MAGAZINE STAFF
Scott Sarran has been named medical director of Oak Brook, Ill.-based Advocate Home Health Services. He is also vice president of medical affairs for...
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Financial News
Aug 1, 1999 12:00 PM,
HOMECARE MAGAZINE STAFF
New York Health Care, Brooklyn, N.Y., reported net loss of $114,218, or 3 cents a share, for its first quarter ended March 31, compared with net income...
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Acquisitions/Alliances
Aug 1, 1999 12:00 PM,
HOMECARE MAGAZINE STAFF
Chesapeake Rehab Equipment, Baltimore, has acquired Rehab Connection, Upper Darby, Pa. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.Flagship Healthcare, Miami...
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Briefly Noted
Aug 1, 1999 12:00 PM,
HOMECARE MAGAZINE STAFF
Invacare Corp., Elyria, Ohio, has received its fourth EDI Innovation Award from Enterprise Development, Cleveland, for the gearless-brushless motor in...
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Olsten to Monitor CHF Patients at Home
Aug 1, 1999 12:00 PM,
HOMECARE MAGAZINE STAFF
Melville, N.Y. Olsten Health Services has signed a partnership agreement with San Francisco-based Alere Medical to use its DayLink technology to monitor...
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HCFA Saves $6.5 Billion, Thanks to BBA '97
Aug 1, 1999 12:00 PM,
Kimberly Schworm
Washington The Health Care Financing Administration saved more than $6.5 billion by reimbursement cuts to providers during the first half of fiscal 1999,...
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Meanwhile, Some Think BBA Went Too Far
Aug 1, 1999 12:00 PM,
HOMECARE MAGAZINE STAFF
Washington In hindsight, Sen. John Breaux, D-La., says the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 wasn't balanced in its treatment of the health care industry."We...
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NYMEP Elects New Board, Fights for Licensure
Aug 1, 1999 12:00 PM,
HOMECARE MAGAZINE STAFF
Farmingdale, N.Y. The New York Medical Equipment Association's annual meeting was a platform to elect new directors, discuss plans for licensure and stress...
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People News
Aug 1, 1999 12:00 PM,
HOMECARE MAGAZINE STAFF
Michelle Misialek has been named senior vice president of finance for home health care manufacturer Omron Healthcare, Vernon Hills, Ill. Misialek was...
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OAMES and OCHC Battle Consolidated Billing
Aug 1, 1999 12:00 PM,
Olivia K. Chadha
Dublin, Ohio The Ohio Association of Medical Equipment Services and the Ohio Council for Home Care have joined forces to battle the Health Care Financing...
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Web Site Spotlight
Aug 1, 1999 12:00 PM,
HOMECARE MAGAZINE STAFF
WHO: Health Industry Distributors AssociationWHERE: www.hida.orgWHAT: HIDA's newly designed Web site has some added attractions. Click on any of the icons,...
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Tested by Tight Margins
Aug 1, 1999 12:00 PM,
Ken Gurnick
IT SAYS IT RIGHT THERE on the powder blue business card: "One of the largest Ostomy Dealerships in the Tri-State area."But the slogan that used to characterize...
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Handling the Loss Leader
Aug 1, 1999 12:00 PM,
Alison Cherney
BY DEFINITION, a loss leader is a product on which you lose money-but through which you also generate sales of other products in your mix. And for many...
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Acquisitions/Alliances
Aug 1, 1999 12:00 PM,
HOMECARE MAGAZINE STAFF
Datex-Ohmeda, Louisville, Colo., and its Ohmeda Medical division have reached an agreement with Chromatics Color Sciences International, New York City,...
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Financial News
Aug 1, 1999 12:00 PM,
HOMECARE MAGAZINE STAFF
Invacare Corp., Elyria, Ohio, began trading its common shares on the New York Stock Exchange in June. The company moved from the Nasdaq market "to achieve...
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Invacare Makes Bid for Scandinavian Mobility
Aug 1, 1999 12:00 PM,
HOMECARE MAGAZINE STAFF
Elyria, Ohio In an attempt to bolster its presence in the European home medical equipment market, Invacare Corp. has made a $131.5 million cash tender...
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