Graham-Field Health Products/Concentrator John Bunn Optium weighs 33 lbs.; operates at less than 45 dba retractable luggage-type handle for transporting;

As usual, there is a heaping helping of challenges on HME providers' plate: the oxygen cap, the 9.5 percent cut, the post-cap payment rules, a $50,000.

Every year we see manufacturers introducing new oxygen products that fit a certain need for suppliers. Providers are looking for quality products that

In January, Kentucky was hit with what Gov. Steve Beshear described as the worst natural disaster to hit Kentucky in modern times. A severe ice storm

Normally we look at claim denials, but there are other reasons why HME providers don't receive their money.

ResMed/CPAP Mask Mirage Activa LT Nasal Mask cushion automatically adjusts to varying sleeping positions and pressure modes gentle floating seal designed

Despite a 60-day delay of the competitive bidding interim final rule, the Medicare bidding project will move forward and Round One will be rebid this year.

Maybe it's an early Valentine's Day present from CMS: Late this afternoon, the agency announced a 60-day delay of the effective date of the competitive bidding interim final rule to April 18, 2009.

As previously reported, CMS has opened a comment period on delay of the effective date for the interim final rule on competitive bidding. All comments must be submitted by Feb. 12, 2009 — today.

"As I prepared for this morning's award ceremony, I was struck by a quote from 19th-century British statesman Benjamin Disraeli, who said, 'Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.'