Then CMS ditched a reported June 25 deadline for release of the Round 1 bid rates, and my summer vacation suddenly went south.

Various HME products, including: Asa Products' Mobo Shift; Homecare Products' EZ-BATHE Inflatable Bathtub; Invacare's FDX; Pride Mobility Products Corp.'s LC-900 Media Lift Chair; and more.

Accreditation has taken off. Where do we stand, and what's coming next?

HME providers are uniquely positioned to serve a market filled with potential for more cash sales.

While it may be easy to sell a product, it is way more complicated and painstaking to create an acceptable and workable contract.

The Internet provides at least three non-intrusive ways to build relationships with referral sources, multiply the presence of each marketing rep and solidify relationships with customers.

Pushing your marketing efforts without falling into a legal pit.

Home medical equipment providers had been waiting for weeks on CMS to release the Round 1 rebid rates. But after they heard the July 1 announcement, many said they were struggling to regroup.

Let's review the results of the DME MAC's prepayment complex medical review of oxygen and oxygen equipment, posted June 8.

Medicare providers won 64 percent of the claims they appealed during the three-year Recovery Audit Contractor demonstration, according to CMS