WATERLOO, Iowa (May 15, 2020)—VGM & Associates, U.S. Rehab, and NCART are raising awareness for the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
MINNETONKA, Minn. (May 14, 2020)—The United Health Foundation has donated $750,000 to provide personal protective equipment (PPE) and support for frontline health care workers fighting COVID-19 and the vulnerable populations they serve in Pennsylvania.
HÖVELHOF, Germany (May 14, 2020)—Pride Mobility Products announced its newest international subsidiary, Pride Germany.
WASHIGTON, D.C. (May 13, 2020)—Late on Friday, May 8, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) updated its COVID-19 Emergency Declaration Blanket Waivers for Health Care Providers document with welcome changes for home health agencies and hospices.
OWINGS MILLS, Md. (May 13, 2020)—Liz Signorella joins Amatus Health as the company’s chief revenue officer. An Illinois native, Signorella brings more than 25 years of health care revenue and contract management experience to the company including most recently, with BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois, the largest customer-owned health insurer in the nation and the fourth largest overall.
BOSTON (May 13, 2020)—Certified Homecare Consulting (CHC), a home health care consulting company with offices in Salem, New Hampshire, and Boston, Massachusetts, is responding to the limited availability of personal protective equipment (PPE) supply resources through strengthening its ordering positions with new and existing supply chain partners in order to ensure that home health care provider agencies are able to source these materials from a reliable partner in a timely manner, with limit
DALLAS (May 13, 2020)—Homecare Homebase (HCHB), a software for home health and hospice, has partnered with MUSE Healthcare of St. Paul to offer enhanced hospice care during the most critical times of a patient’s care journey. The new product uses sophisticated modeling and machine learning to better predict, prepare and provide for hospice patients in the last seven to 12 days of life.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (May 12, 2020)--New York state has arguably been the hardest hit by the novel coronavirus outbreak—and that’s leading to some creativity in the business world.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 12, 2020)—Last week, the DME MACs announced that the certificate of medical necessity (CMN) for oxygen claims will not be required during the public health emergency. This is due to the CMS interim final rule published on April 6 (CMS-1744-IFC) that waived the clinical indication requirements for respiratory NCDs and LCDs. In the new announcement, the DME MACs clarified that the same exemption will apply to external infusion pumps.
By Judith Graham
DENVER ― Last month, Minna Buck revised a document specifying her wishes should she become critically ill.
“No intubation,” she wrote in large letters on the form, making sure to include the date and her initials.
Buck, 91, had been following the news about COVID-19. She knew her chances of surviving a serious bout of the illness were slim. And she wanted to make sure she wouldn’t be put on a ventilator under any circumstances.