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What is your business built on?

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Monday, May 14, 2012

Data has always been a hallmark of the HME News Business Summit. Each year in our Financial Benchmarking presentation, providers see how they stack up against their peers in everything from net revenues to DSO to employee expenses.

How to put the social back into social media

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Monday, May 14, 2012
Dave Bargmann
Social media consultant for Duckridge Advisors

While it’s a great thing that more and more companies are jumping aboard the social media bandwagon every day, most providers in the home medical/durable medical (HME/DME) arena still aren’t really grasping the point of doing so and, therefore, missing out on huge opportunities to engage the targ

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What's in a name?

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Friday, May 11, 2012

 

As stakeholders have worked to create a separate benefit category for complex rehab, they've also created something else: new acronyms. 

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Is it common sense or am I psychic?

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Thursday, May 10, 2012

You know you've been on the job for a while when you start making predictions that come true.

Amazing story

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Friday, May 4, 2012

 

I have to admit it: I'm one of those people whose heart goes pitter-pat when I see babies, kittens and puppies. Certain commercials make me tear up. I could be considered a softie. 

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Dear Ann Marie

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Friday, May 4, 2012

This rainy Friday afternoon, I was mindlessly scanning the headlines and the letters to the editor on the website of our local paper.

A funny but serious lesson on buying HME online

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Wednesday, May 2, 2012

A number of us at HME News got a good chuckle when a press release with this headline popped up in our Google News Alerts:

The mystery of the antique wheelchair

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Monday, April 30, 2012

 

NRRTS member Wayne Smith came across an antique wicker back wheelchair recently.

Wayne is now on the hunt for more info and maybe someone who could help him track the wheelchair's travels before it was found in southern Oregon. 

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Dangerous acronyms

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Friday, April 27, 2012

 

We're heading toward the final stretch of Friday afternoon here at HME News World HQ, and I thought I'd share a little story with you guys to perk you up to make it to the finish line.

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Consumers rock CELA

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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

I followed CELA's New York team around Capitol Hill last week as they visited more than 25 congressional offices. I think I hit about 8-10 of those as I followed different people around during the day.

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