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February 1, 2004
A Simple Plan
Feb 1, 2004 12:00 PM,
By Gail Walker, Editor-in-Chief
Our staff often hears from providers who have discovered ways to improve their operations or increase their profits. We rarely hear from any of you that...
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Redefining Rehab: Serving Bob
Feb 1, 2004 12:00 PM,
By David T. Williams
Many in the home medical equipment services industry wonder why the rehab community is constantly trying to differentiate itself from the rest of HME....
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Redefining Rehab: New Rehab Coalition Forms
Feb 1, 2004 12:00 PM,
Tim Heston
An independent coalition of advocates has formed to address specific issues in the home medical equipment industry's high-end rehabilitation sector. The...
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Mandatory Accreditation
Feb 1, 2004 12:00 PM,
By Jerold S. Cohen
Since the late 1980s, accreditation has been voluntary for home medical equipment providers in the Medicare program. But this is about to change. The...
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Big Demand, Big Market
Feb 1, 2004 12:00 PM,
By Marjory Garrison
America's weight gain has meant bigger wheelchairs and bigger beds in the home care market, along with bigger profits for manufacturers and providers...
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The Scooter Store Lays Off 200
Feb 1, 2004 12:00 PM
New Braunfels, Texas In January, The Scooter Store announced the layoff of 200 employees, a move the company attributes to the clarification of Medicare's...
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Bush Calls for Improved Health Care Access
Feb 1, 2004 12:00 PM
Washington During his State of the Union address Jan. 20, President Bush called on Congress to help control health care costs and, at the same time, extend...
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HIPAA TCS Compliance Reaches 58 Percent
Feb 1, 2004 12:00 PM
Baltimore As of Jan. 2, 58 percent of electronic claims Medicare received were in the transaction code set (TCS) format required by the Health Insurance...
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Abbott to Acquire TheraSense for $1.2 Billion
Feb 1, 2004 12:00 PM
Abbott Park, Ill. Abbott Laboratories will acquire diabetes test-maker TheraSense Inc., which manufactures FreeStyle blood glucose self-monitoring systems,...
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New Products
Feb 1, 2004 12:00 PM
Respironics/CPAP System Remstar Plus now available with C-Flex breathing monitor breathing monitor tracks patient's breathing to lower the amount of pressure...
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Lifts, Ramps & Transfer Devices
Feb 1, 2004 12:00 PM
Precision Lifts/Interior-Exterior Lift Hide and Ride HD design has lifting capacity of 350 pounds installer can adjust both height and reach for maximum...
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The Parable of the Mom & Pop
Feb 1, 2004 12:00 PM,
By Paula Patch
If ever the home medical equipment industry needed a modern-day fable of how to succeed in the face of competition and corporate takeovers, now is the...
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Spread the Word
Feb 1, 2004 12:00 PM,
By Cara C. Bachenheimer, Esq.
In early December, the durable medical equipment regional carriers posted Web bulletins clarifying existing Medicare coverage policy for motorized wheelchairs...
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Doing Things Your Way
Feb 1, 2004 12:00 PM,
By Neil Caesar
The ROPE (Rule Overload Prevention and Elimination) system reduces rule overload while improving profitability and operational efficiency. Complying with...
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Industry Standards
Feb 1, 2004 12:00 PM,
By Shelly Prial
One of the platforms I have preached for many years is that there are far too few standards for products offered to Medicare beneficiaries. The price...
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Bulk Purchasing to Cut Costs
Feb 1, 2004 12:00 PM,
By Wallace Weeks
In a near-unanimous response, 92 percent of the home medical equipment providers surveyed for HomeCare's 2004 Forecast (December 2003) said they intend...
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Focus on the Competition
Feb 1, 2004 12:00 PM,
By Louis Feuer, MA, MSW
They are everywhere. You meet them in hospital halls, at the community health fair, sitting in the doctor's office and in the rehab center. They make...
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Medtrade Spring Preview
Feb 1, 2004 12:00 PM
Medtrade Spring is set to open next month in Las Vegas, and show producers say this edition of the buying and networking expo a more intimate version...
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Redefining Rehab: Making a Name for Itself
Feb 1, 2004 12:00 PM,
By Simon Margolis
Over the last few years, the only thing more elusive than adequate funding for rehabilitation products and services has been an objective and comprehensive...
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They May Not Need You Yet
Feb 1, 2004 12:00 PM,
By Tim Heston
This is no Medtrade. That's something Reece Franklin hears over and over from the home medical equipment businesses that exhibit at his Southern California...
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