Smart Choices

By Greg Thompson

Intelligent equipment emerges to help you be smarter about business....

The New Face of PAP Therapy

By Denise H. McClinton

Due to the new policies included in the CMS' local coverage determination issued in September, compliance is now more critical than ever....

Boosting Bath Sales

By Larry Anderson

The opportunity is huge to maximize sales in a healthy cash market....

Getting a Lift Without Medicare

By Susanne Hopkins

Homecare Suppliers forgoes the Big M and private insurance — and grows anyway...

The Taxman Cometh

By Gail Walker (gwalker@homecaremag.com)

I was shocked and saddened at former South Dakota Sen. Tom Daschle's admission that he hadn't paid his taxes — $128,203 according to ABC News, owed mostly on a car-and-driver service....

O2 Sector Works to Find Common Ground

By Susanne Hopkins

Repeal the cap? Reform the benefit? Yes and yes, oxygen stakeholders say....

Notable & Quotable

Preventing Falls

By Stephanie Silk (ssilk@homecaremag.com)

HME Providers can offer products and knowledge to seniors at risk of falling....

Patient-Centered Oxygen

By Tyler Wilson

The timeline for oxygen reimbursement should be based on medical necessity and align more closely than it does today with the true costs of providing the equipment and services integral to the benefit....

Dear Mr. President

By Cara C. Bachenheimer, Esq.

As growing numbers of seniors enter the Medicare program, it is important that we take care to maintain an adequate number of qualified and capable providers to address demand for care in the home, especially in rural areas....

Kodak and HME

By Wallace Weeks

Kodak's history is replete with lessons for the HME industry, but one really sticks out: We can't hold on to the past. We must change with our environment regardless of why or how the environment changes....

Sales Call to America

By Louis Feuer, MA, MSW

Let's stop talking about selling medical equipment. Let's begin talking about what we really do — allowing people to live productive lives....

Medicare Made Me Do It

By Mary Ellen Conway, RN, BSN

Since Medicare is requiring that providers become accredited, it may confuse those who think these processes are only applicable to Medicare beneficiaries....

Avoiding Fraud and Abuse

By Neil Caesar

Here are six common misconceptions about fraud and abuse. If you are alert to these misconceptions and the danger of complacency that can result from...

C050 These are non-covered services because this is not deemed a medical necessity by the payer

By Sarah Hanna

With elimination of the CMN came the KX modifier. With the KX modifier came the requirement for providers to prove medical necessity from documentation in the patient's medical record....

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