30 Years of HomeCare

As HomeCare opens its scrapbook on the last 30 years, there's a lot to take in. Since the magazine's first issue in 1978, the home medical equipment industry...

The Way We Were

Gail Walker gwalker@homecaremag.com

This is a celebratory issue for HomeCare as we mark the magazine's 30th anniversary and for the entire home medical equipment industry, fresh off the...

A Sleeper Hit

By Rebecca Grilliot

As Americans grow older and increasingly choose to stay in their homes to receive care, the demand for special beds and support surfaces will continue...

Software/Technology

Dynamic Energy Systems/Billing and Management MedAct HME/POS billing and management software provides claims processing with automated claim verification...

Trends

Day's sales outstanding can best be minimized by ensuring that clean claims are submitted electronically. A provider's billing process that is, the software...

Doing Things The American Way

By Vince Crew

We all remember the pending Apollo 13 disaster and the combination of individual creativity, ultimate leadership, indomitable spirit and a willingness...

A Grand Plan

By Colette Weil, MBA

The retail home medical equipment business requires patience, verve and creativity even in the best of times. But opening a new store in the middle of...

A Good Thing

By Tyler Wilson

When this industry works together, good things happen. Back in February, no one could have predicted that the House and Senate would approve legislation...

Victory!

By Cara C. Bachenheimer, Esq.

July 15, 2008, should be remembered as the industry's watershed day. It is the day Congress voted in favor of the Medicare bill that delays the competitive...

Le Tour de France

By Wallace Weeks

Each July, I enjoy watching le Tour de France. This is the 95th year of the contest. Two thousand two hundred miles through rain, heat, mountains, pain...

Look Back, See Ahead

By Louis Feuer, MA, MSW

With HomeCare magazine celebrating 30 great years in bringing important information to the industry, I find myself reluctantly sharing in the celebration....

KX Marks the Spot

By Jane Bunch

The KX modifier is the most deadly modifier in this industry. Providers must be educated on the true meaning of this modifier and when to add it and when...

Mind Your Manners

By Neil Caesar

Have you ever provided free or discounted services to referring physicians or their staffers or families? How about hospital personnel, affiliated with...

And One More Thing

By Shelly Prial

I never planned on writing another column when I retired. The reason for this special edition of Shelly Sez is that I understand the fear that many of...

HME Wins Bid Delay!

By Susanne Hopkins

ATLANTA In a victory of landmark proportions for the home medical equipment industry and the people it serves, national competitive bidding was suspended...

HME Headlines

Check the HomeCare Monday archives atwww.homecaremonday.com to trace what the industry has labeled the train wreck of competitive bidding: Competitive...

Conquering the Channel

By Erin Greer

Just how far would you go to prove the viability of your business? For Florida physical therapist Stanley Paris, the answer is 23 miles in swim trunks...

HME PRODUCTS

Respironics/Infant Phototherapy System Children's Medical Ventures BiliTx bilirubin phototherapy system for jaundice management in infants features compact...

Harbinger of Things to Come

30 years ago In July's issue of HomeCare, Ascher Kauffman, then chairman of the Home Health Care Certification Board, predicted that the long-talked about...