EXETER, Penn. (January 19, 2017)—Pride Mobility Products is pleased to announce that its providers have achieved sales milestones with its Jazzy Air and Go-Chair retail power chairs, each surpassing the 1,000 units sold mark.

ST. LOUIS (January 19, 2017)—Responsive Respiratory introduces its newly re-engineered heavy-duty cardboard cylinder totes.

LIVINGSTON, Tenn. (January 19, 2017)—Encore Healthcare, LLC, announced the purchase of Nexus, a HIPAA-compliant care management platform from Nashville-based Jumpstart Foundry alumnus, Evermind, Inc., accelerating its leadership, expertise and innovation in post-acute respiratory population health management.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (January 18, 2017)—CMS published guidance to the states on Friday, January 13, in an effort to give strategies to the state to ensure access to DMEPOS is available. This was issued due to comments from 2016 on CMS 1651-P and 2011 comments submitted in response to Federal Register Request for Comment on alignment under Medicaid and Medicare. While CMS cannot enforce these suggestions, we believe that they would benefit both states and providers.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (January 17, 2017)—Data is the lifeblood of the value-based payment environment. Every time a doctor takes care of a patient, we have an opportunity to use information in ways that help patients get better care. The goal is to use the information from each patient encounter to make the next encounter better—across the entire health care system. But it is easier said than done.