Tag: Avera Home Medical Equipment
In brief: Sequestration cuts, Better Health’s debut, NSM’s latest buy
March 26, 2021HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – The House of Representatives has passed a bill that would extend the moratorium on the 2% Medicare sequestration cuts from March 31, 2021, to Dec. 31, 2021.
H.R. 1868, which passed 246-175, would also exempt the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan from the statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, eliminating an additional 4% Medicare cut that would amount to about $36 billion in 2022.
On March 15, Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H.,...
Avera HME to open store in health care campus
March 23, 2021HME News Staff
SPIRIT LAKE, Iowa – Avera Home Medical Equipment is opening a store at Lakes Regional Healthcare, according to a local radio station, KUOO. Construction on the 2,500-square-foot location, which will be located in a space formerly occupied by Lakes Family Practice, is expected to begin in April and to be completed in the fall, the station says. “Health care has changed and, obviously, due to COVID, we see more and more health care needs being met at home,” Jason Harrington,...