MURRYSVILLE, Pa. (Dec. 10, 2013)—Philips Respironics continues efforts to improve therapy options for sleep apnea patients with the industry’s first and only gel pillows mask. The world leader in gel cushion technology brings the comfort and sealing power of gel to nasal pillows.
DALLAS, Texas (Dec. 3, 2013)—A new video produced by People for Quality Care, an organization dedicated to ensuring quality, innovation, and service for Medicare beneficiaries, features Dallas-area residents with disabilities currently fighting for the wheelchairs and supplies they need to live life to the fullest.
Recently implemented Medicare rules have created extremely tedious documentation regulations that are difficult for physicians, therapists, and providers to follow.
LAS VEGAS (Dec. 9, 2013)—Early bird registration for Medtrade Spring is officially open, and those who register now will see substantial savings.
Medtrade Spring starts in about three months, but hundreds of exhibitors and thousands of attendees are already making plans to head to the Nevada desert for the March 10-12 show.
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (Dec. 6, 2013)—Camellia Home Health and Hospice of Hattiesburg, Miss. is lowering operating costs and providing clinical team members an added benefit by providing 105 brand new, eco-boost Ford Focus models and 20 Ford Escapes. As a result, employees will no longer have to seek reimbursement from the company for mileage driven in their personal cars.
NEW YORK, N.Y. and SOUTH DAYTONA, Fla. (Dec.
DALLAS, Texas (Dec. 10, 2013)—Since DMEPOS Competitive Bidding Program Round 2 winners were announced, health care attorney and commercial litigator, Edward Vishnevetsky, has received dozens of calls and emails from clients inquiring about a work-around whereby a non-contract supplier can access a contract supplier’s contract by buying five percent of the stock of the contract supplier.
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—Somnetics International, Inc., the Minneapolis-based maker of Transcend Sleep Apnea Therapy System announced earlier this year that it received CE Mark for new sleep apnea therapy products Transcend Auto auto-adjusting positive airway pressure (APAP) device and the Transcend EZEX continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) fixed-pressure device, for distribution throughout Europe.
The Transcend Auto APAP and the Transcend EZEX CPAP are the world’s smallest, lightest and most i
WASHINGTON (Dec. 11, 2013)—Ask your senators to support amendments to fix the disastrous Medicare bidding program.
Key members of Congress advised AAH recently that the best chance they have of reducing the tremendous burden of the Medicare bidding program on providers and their patients is to develop fixes based on the industry solution—the market pricing program.