Innovative new products bring promising advances to fall prevention.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 26, 2017)—AARP Services, Inc. (ASI) and UnitedHealthcare announced the winners of the Fall Prevention Innovation Challenge. The Challenge, launched in February to identify new solutions for preventing falls among older adults, received more than 200 contributions from participants in more than 90 countries.

DAVISON, Mich. (June 23, 2017)—Universal Software Solutions, Inc. (USSI), a provider of practice management solutions for the home health care and medical equipment markets, has enhanced its Healthcare Data Management Software (HDMS) with a powerful Collections & Denials Module. This new software development represents a streamlined and time-saving approach for home medical equipment (HME) billers to work accounts receivables and denied claims.

Proposed rule aims to simplify reporting requirements and offer support for doctors and clinicians in 2018.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (June 21, 2017)—The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a proposed rule that would make changes in the second year of the Quality Payment Program as required by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA). CMS’s goal is to simplify the program, especially for small, independent and rural practices, while ensuring fiscal sustainability and high-quality care within Medicare.

DAVISON, Mich. (June 21, 2017)—Universal Software Solutions, Inc. (USSI), a provider of practice management solutions for the home health care markets has announced the keynote speakers for its 2017 HDMS User Conference. The keynote speakers are Kelly Grahovac, from the van Halem Group in Atlanta, Georgia, and Chris Kinard, from LifeHME in Columbia, South Carolina.