WASHINGTON (May 7, 2015)—Bundled payment initiatives are making headway in the U.S. as a key payment approach to improve health care quality and lower costs. Sharing successful strategies for how to best engage consumers in bundled payment initiatives, data and analytics, risk arrangements, and transparency implementing contracts for high-cost procedures and conditions, will be among the areas of focus at the Fifth National Bundled Payment Summit.

PORTLAND, Oregon—DME Repair and Training LLC, is pleased to announce the durable medical equipment industry’s first repair training and credentialing program. This new credential establishes requirements and codes of ethics for each individual technician servicing durable medical equipment. In order to attain the credential, a Durable Medical Equipment Repair Technician (DMERT) certification is required.