WASHINGTON (March 31, 2014)—Budget politics are a particularly murky process in our Congress. For months, both the House and Senate have been talking about finally passing legislation to fix the sustainable growth rate (SGR) methodology used to pay physicians who treat Medicare patients.
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WATERLOO, Iowa (March 25, 2014)—VGM Group, Inc., has been named 2014 Iowa-Nebraska Chapter ESOP Company of the Year.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. (March 18, 2014)—SCA, a leading global hygiene and forest products company, announced the addition of American sailor Sara Hastreiter to Team SCA, the only all-female crew to compete in the 2014-2015 Volvo Ocean Race.
Hastreiter, raised in Wyoming and a current resident of Newport, R.I., discovered her passion for sailing less than four years ago.
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (March 25, 2014)—Responsive Respiratory, a leading manufacturer of high‐pressure oxygen products, announced today it has expanded its warehouse and manufacturing facilities for the
third time in five years.
The facility expansion allows for the increased volume of its Private Label Program—a value‐added, product personalization service only offered by RRI.
SOMERSET, Pa. (March 26, 2014)—Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett recently visited DeVilbiss Healthcare’s corporate headquarters in Somerset, Pa., and commended the company for its efforts in bringing jobs back to the U.S.
Gov. Corbett met with DeVilbiss’ management team, toured the manufacturing facility and formally addressed the company’s more than 200 on-site employees.
TORRANCE, Calif. (March 25, 2014)—Convaid, Inc., a leading manufacturer of lightweight, compact-folding, adaptive-assisted wheelchairs, is joining United Parcel Service (UPS) in its sustainability efforts by participating in the freight company’s innovative “UPS carbon neutral” program, allowing shippers to offset the environmental impact of transporting their freight with contributions based on each shipment’s CO2 emissions.
The American Association for Homecare will soon be launching a new communications campaign designed to directly reach out to patients and rally them behind AAHomecare’s advocacy efforts.
The new patient awareness campaign, Save My Medical Supplies, will be aimed directly at patients to build public awareness, and eventually a public outcry, from the millions of people who are receiving care from the HME industry.
To that end, AAHomecare would appreciate your view on patients' level of famili
March 27, 2014—Despite opposition from doctors' groups, on a voice vote Thursday, the House of Representatives passed a one-year patch for Medicare's unpopular sustainable growth-rate formula for physician payments and, in the same bill, extended the implementation deadline for ICD-10 diagnostic and procedural codes for at least one year.
March 27, 2014—SCA, a leading global hygiene and forest products company, has been recognized as a 2014 World's Most Ethical Company by the Ethisphere Institute, an independent center of research that promotes best practices in corporate ethics and governance.
This is the seventh consecutive year that SCA has been named to the global list, which recognizes organizations that continue to raise the bar on ethical leadership and corporate behavior.