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Providers enter national stage with merger

by: 
HME News Staff
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04/22/2014
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Providers

WESTMINSTER, Md. – Mobility Rehab Products has joined forces with Cal City Medical Supplies, doing business as Smart Remedies, to develop a national footprint for the delivery of DME.

Fingerprinting: New opportunity for ‘mistakes and delays’

by: 
Liz Beaulieu
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04/18/2014
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General News

WASHINGTON – HME providers who want to do business with Medicare will have to navigate through another layer of bureaucracy starting some time this year.

New Rotech CEO talks strategy

by: 
Theresa Flaherty
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04/18/2014
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Providers

ORLANDO, Fla. – Rotech Healthcare is speeding up turnaround plans, with a new CEO and some “aggressive goals.”

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Providers put services on chopping block

by: 
Leah Hoenen
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04/18/2014
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General News

YARMOUTH, Maine – An overwhelming majority of respondents to a recent HME Newspoll (91%) said lower reimbursement has driven them to cut back on services over the last year.

The area where they’ve cut the most: deliveries (44%).

Reporter's notebook: Walmart brochure ‘disparages’ providers

by: 
Theresa Flaherty
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04/18/2014
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Specialty Providers

YARMOUTH, Maine – As far as provider Lisa Feierstein is concerned, businesses can do what they like as long as it’s legal. But she took umbrage with a recent marketing piece from Walmart touting its new line of “truefit” CPAP supplies.

In brief: CMS awards new bid contracts, QIC overturns denials

by: 
HME News Staff
  - 
04/18/2014
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General News

HONOLULU – CMS has awarded new competitive bidding contracts to two local providers in Hawaii: Aloha Medical and American Home Care Systems. To date, just 13 of the 97 providers who accepted contracts as part of Round 2 of competitive bidding were located in Hawaii.

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