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October 1, 2003
Answering the Call
Oct 1, 2003 12:00 PM,
By Gail Walker, Editor-in-Chief
What a year this has been and it's only October. We've watched our troops pull out for war with Iraq, and then watched that war on television. Mysterious...
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Editor's Inbox
Oct 1, 2003 12:00 PM
Editor's Note: The recent federal crackdown on power wheelchair fraud sparked an outpouring of response from many HomeCare readers. The following letters...
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BLACKOUT
Oct 1, 2003 12:00 PM,
BY TIM HESTON
After the lights went out, Marty Maduro, a Medigas customer service representative in Newmarket, Ontario, rigged his location's phone system to run off...
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Q & A With Tom Scully
Oct 1, 2003 12:00 PM
He's Medicare's defender and its toughest critic. He roots for beneficiaries but works to contain costs. He wants to stop fraud. He would like to see...
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From So-So to So Good
Oct 1, 2003 12:00 PM,
BY DEXTER W. BRAFF
The best performers are indeed different, often because they manage differently. In representing many of the best and the brightest, as well as in conducting...
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Keeping Tabs
Oct 1, 2003 12:00 PM,
BY MICHAEL BARISH
A critical aspect of managing a successful home care business is knowing the quantity and quality of work being performed by your staff. This information...
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Performance Counts
Oct 1, 2003 12:00 PM,
BY LOUIS FEUER
Fourth-quarter business issues are starting to take center stage. Some of you are looking back on 2003 and wondering what you can expect from 2004. Whatever...
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Leading the Charge
Oct 1, 2003 12:00 PM
Here in Washington, we encourage everyone to speak with one voice by ensuring all of our efforts are focused on one message, according to Kay Cox, president...
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With Service and Sensitivity
Oct 1, 2003 12:00 PM,
By Denise H. McClinton
Manufacturers of post-mastectomy products and breastfeeding supplies have raised the bar this year by improving comfort, durability and efficiency all...
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Getting the Most Out of Medtrade
Oct 1, 2003 12:00 PM
Atlanta is a city of superlatives, bustling with booming businesses, the busiest airport in the world and attractions that bring in more than 18 million...
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Rise & Shine with HomeCare
Oct 1, 2003 12:00 PM
Beginning the show each morning of Medtrade 2003, HomeCare magazine will sponsor an opening session designed to get your day going with a focus on the...
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Hit the Bricks
Oct 1, 2003 12:00 PM
Atlanta's attractions are known worldwide, and visitors to the Southern metropolis will never run out of things to do. The city is home to the World of...
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On the Menu
Oct 1, 2003 12:00 PM
Long recognized for traditional Southern cooking and comfort food, Atlanta is also becoming known for the wide variety of fine restaurants, neighborhood...
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Take Your Seat
Oct 1, 2003 12:00 PM
Past the opportunity to see 250,000 home medical products and visit with 1,000 manufacturers, distributors and service companies on the exhibit floor,...
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Medicare Reform Progress Slow, But Still Going
Oct 1, 2003 12:00 PM,
Brook Raflo
Washington After weeks of partisan wrangling, conferees from the House and Senate have reached agreements on several of what they called Medicare-reform...
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Feds Crack Down on Power Wheelchair Fraud
Oct 1, 2003 12:00 PM,
Tim Heston
Washington and Baltimore On Sept. 9, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services took drastic action to clean up billing fraud in the durable medical...
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CMS Changes to Online Manuals
Oct 1, 2003 12:00 PM
Baltimore The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Sept. 12 it will change from a paper-based to a Web-based system for Medicare manual...
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Bogus Company Fraud in Florida
Oct 1, 2003 12:00 PM
Miami After a two-and-a-half-year investigation, federal prosecutors have charged 11 individuals with participating in a scheme that used bogus DME companies...
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Medicare Implements HIPAA Contingency Plan
Oct 1, 2003 12:00 PM,
Brook Raflo
Baltimore To avoid what one Medicare spokesman called a possible health care system collapse, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will implement...
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Proposed Medicare Cuts Ignore Service
Oct 1, 2003 12:00 PM,
Brook Raflo
Baltimore Bi-level respiratory-assist devices with backup, designed to treat patients with severe respiratory conditions, should fall under Medicare's...
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Medicare Proposes Four Ways to Cut AWP
Oct 1, 2003 12:00 PM,
Brook Raflo
Baltimore It is no longer a matter of if, but when and how, the average wholesale price system for reimbursing Medicare Part B drugs will change. The...
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Doc Says Expand Medicare Coverage
Oct 1, 2003 12:00 PM
Boston An article in the Aug. 13 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association proposed extending Medicare to cover uninsured people age...
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GAO Report Echoes Home Care Industry
Oct 1, 2003 12:00 PM
Washington For the first time in recent history, a federal budget-watching office took the proverbial words out of the home care industry's mouth. In...
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State News
Oct 1, 2003 12:00 PM
Legislation Competitive Bidding Arises in Florida Budget: Florida's Medicaid agency, the Agency for Health Care Administration, has a budget calling for...
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Provider News
Oct 1, 2003 12:00 PM
ACHC Announces New Affiliations: The Accreditation Commission for Health Care, Raleigh, N.C., announced new affiliations with the Amarillo, Texas-based...
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Manufacturer News
Oct 1, 2003 12:00 PM
Invacare Announces Two Acquisitions: Invacare, Elyria, Ohio, has expanded its reach to further the company's goal of reaching $2 billion in revenue by...
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New Products
Oct 1, 2003 12:00 PM
PlainSense Wheelchairs/Wheelchair OiS Orientation in Space Wheelchair tilts from 5 to +45 degrees with almost static center of gravity features quick-release...
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Rehab Products
Oct 1, 2003 12:00 PM
Sunrise Medical/Wheelchair IRIS Intelligent Rotation in Space features rotational tilt system in which movement of user's center of gravity is reduced...
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Sweet Success
Oct 1, 2003 12:00 PM,
By Paula Patch and Brook Raflo
In the shadow of Universal Studios, a few short blocks from the streets where stars like Jane Wyman and John Wayne made names for themselves, sits a community...
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Sound the Alarm
Oct 1, 2003 12:00 PM,
By Cara C. Bachenheimer, Esq.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Operation Wheeler Dealer hit the trade press and even the mainstream press in early September. If there...
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Suffering from Rule Overload?
Oct 1, 2003 12:00 PM,
By Neil Caesar
Welcome back to Compliance University Class is now is session! This month I will begin a of articles to address a major problem home care providers face:...
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Little Things
Oct 1, 2003 12:00 PM,
By Miriam Lieber
In the HME business, the No. 1 issue typically is reimbursement with good reason. Reimbursement directly impacts your bottom line. And, while my main...
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Battling Lethargy
Oct 1, 2003 12:00 PM,
By Shelly Prial
Apathetic, these all are terms that describe lethargy. When I look at many dealers from my ivory tower in Florida, I see another definition for lethargy....
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Books for HME Providers
Oct 1, 2003 12:00 PM,
Compiled by Tim Heston
Direct-Mail Simplicity The U.S. Postal Service created Simple Formulas: The Easy Way to Grow Your Business with Mail to help small businesses with mailing...
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People on the Move
Oct 1, 2003 12:00 PM
Cara C. Bachenheimer will join Invacare, Elyria, Ohio, Oct. 20 as vice president of government relations. A specialist in health care legislation and...
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Pulling Together On Capitol Hill
Oct 1, 2003 12:00 PM,
BY SUSANNE HOPKINS
We've got to be a team. Teamwork wins. If we don't hang together, it's for sure we're going to hang separately.Shelly Prial, HomeCare magazine, November...
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The Great Outdoors
Oct 1, 2003 12:00 PM,
By Paula Patch
By the time you read this, Jeff Pagels may already have climbed by way of a specially adapted hand-propelled, three-wheeled mountain bike Mt. Kilimanjaro,...
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