Billing Reimburse Headlines

Jul 8, 2008

Using Education to Fight Reimbursement Woes

Mar 1, 2008

Thompson Home Medical Equipment in Traverse City, Mich., faces issues common to HME businesses across the country: The company is struggling to provide...

2006 Reimbursement Survey

May 1, 2006

As reimbursements shrink, home care companies across the size and revenue spectrum told us they are working on business processes to improve efficiency...

Study Finds Service Fee Needed for Inhalation Drugs Reimbursement

Oct 1, 2004

Washington A study of inhalation drug therapy services provided to beneficiaries in their homes found the new 2005 Medicare reimbursement formula based...

Let's Get Lean and Mean

Oct 1, 2004, By Jane Bunch

With the growing concern regarding reimbursement cuts, pharmacy changes, competitive bidding and the other doom-and-gloom news you hear, I say let's get...

OIG Releases Study for 2005 Oxygen Reimbursement

Oct 1, 2004

Washington Last month the government revealed several pieces of next year's oxygen reimbursement puzzle, as the HHS OIG released a report recommending...

AAHomecare Members Fight MMA's Reimbursement Changes

Jul 1, 2004

As Washington rushed to prepare for former president Ronald Reagan's funeral, 200 industry stakeholders fanned out over Capitol Hill to drive the home...

Hobson Drafts Legislation To Repeal 2005 Reimbursement Cuts

May 1, 2004

Washington A U.S. Representative plans to introduce legislation that would repeal 2005 reimbursement cuts for some DME products and oxygen. The Medicare...

A New Medicare Era

Mar 1, 2004

The new Medicare law signed by President Bush on Dec. 8, 2003, includes a number of reforms that affect Medicare beneficiaries and the home care providers...

A Ton of Prevention

Mar 1, 2004, By Miriam Lieber

The Medicare Reform Act, otherwise known as the Medicare Prescription Drug Improvement, and Modernization Act (MMA), became effective Jan. 1, 2004. Although...

Walgreens Health Initiatives Acquires All-Care

Feb 1, 2004

Deerfield, Ill. Walgreens Health Initiatives, through Walgreens Home Care Inc., has acquired selected assets of All Care Medical Supply and Interactive...

Face to Face with Reimbursement

Aug 1, 2003, BY BROOK RAFLO

Washington's face may not have launched a thousand ships, but it certainly prompted thousands of HME providers to brave the seas of reimbursement over...

THE MONEY MAZE

Aug 1, 2002, Compiled by Paula Patch

The quest for reimbursement is a mind-numbing maze for most home medical equipment providers. Dead ends, in the form of reviews and denials, abound along...

From the Golden Age to the Crackdown Stage

Oct 1, 2001, By Tom Gray

SOMETIMES THE MEMORY plays tricks on us and nostalgia bathes the past in a deceptive glow. We often remember good old days that didn't feel all that good...

The Service Component of HME

Oct 1, 2001, By Denise H. McClinton

SHOULD YOU RECEIVE reimbursement for service? Many in the home medical equipment industry say yes, but to date, Washington has had a difference of opinion....

On the Road to Reimbursement

Aug 1, 2001, By the HomeCare Staff

WHAT PROCESSES do you have in place to help steer you in the right direction along the reimbursement road? Last May, HomeCare magazine randomly surveyed...

Seeing Red Over Reimbursement

Oct 1, 2000, HOMECARE STAFF

PROVIDERS VIEW MEDICARE AS FICKLE, MANAGED CARE AS SLOW TALK ABOUT A HOT BUTTON! When we asked home medical equipment providers in our recent 2000 HME...

Following the Money Trail

Aug 1, 2000, HOMECARE MAGAZINE STAFF

IN MAY 2000, HomeCare magazine surveyed more than 100 home medical equipment providers around the country to learn more about their reimbursement practices....

the Great PAPER chase

Aug 1, 2000, Richard Park

LIKE DEATH AND TAXES, FILING REIMBURSEMENT CLAIMS IS a fact of life for home medical equipment providers. And while providers say most claims are reimbursed...

HCFA Saves $6.5 Billion, Thanks to BBA '97

Aug 1, 1999, 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,...