Cedar Falls, Iowa (June 8, 2015)—Nine-year-old Natalie Olsen and her family will be the beneficiaries of new home accessibility equipment to be installed at their home in Cedar Falls. The home modification will take place Wednesday, June 17, and is part of Access Day USA, a nationwide campaign, championed by nonprofit Evergreen Life Access, to promote safe home access for people with a physical limitation who are in need.

WASHINGTON, DC (June 2, 2015)—Joint replacement was the most common hospital procedure that Medicare paid for in 2013, accounting for nearly 450,000 inpatient admissions and $6.6 billion in payments.

Among physicians, cancer specialists received the largest payments from Medicare, but much of their reimbursements went to cover the cost of the very expensive drugs to treat their patients.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. (June 2, 2015)—DME Data Solutions has introduced a new Windows-based database application that utilizes clinical outcome measures to drive sales.

WASHINGTON, DC (June 1, 2015)—As part of the Administration’s efforts to promote better care, smarter spending and healthier people, CMS is posting the third-annual release of the Medicare hospital utilization and payment data (both inpatient and outpatient) and the second-annual release of the physician and other supplier utilization and payment data. The announcement was made at the annual Health Datapalooza Conference in Washington, DC.

MEDIA, Pennsylvania (May 27, 2015)—Apacheta announced today that Patient Home Monitoring, a leading provider of home medical equipment, supplies and services, has selected Apacheta’s industry-leading mobile delivery management solution. This next generation tablet-based solution will be used to optimize delivery operations of home medical equipment (HME) to patients across the United States.

Washington, DC (May 28, 2015)—On May 22, the House Energy and Commerce Committee unanimously passed the 21st Century Cures legislation, the goal of which is to foster health care innovation. The bipartisan support reflected in the 51-0 vote in favor of the bill came after lawmakers hashed out an agreement on ways to offset its estimated $13 billion cost. While the Cures bill has strong support in the House, it does not appear to have the support needed to pass in the Senate.