Tag: Carolina's Home Medical Equipment

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Carolina's Home Medical Equipment, Inc., has launched a new division, CHMEI BreastPumps. CHMEI BreastPumps has partnered with Spectra, Medela and others to offer industry leading breast pumps and accessories through a simple three-step process that allows women to get their breast pumps covered by insurance and shipped right to their doorstep. “There are about 120,000 live births each year in North Carolina alone,” said Andrew Trammell, president and CEO of Carolina's. “We're...

MATTHEWS, N.C. - Carolina's Home Medical Equipment has its own way of measuring just how well the full-service DME company is meeting patient expectations.The first: customer satisfaction.“We treat every customer as if it was our own parent, so if it's not good enough for our mom we're not going to do it,” said Andrew Trammell, vice president and CFO of Carolina's, based in Matthews, N.C.Carolina's founder, Frank Trammell, calls this focus “extreme service.” It's an approach...

WASHINGTON - Lawmakers should heed the findings of a new report that raises concerns about the roll out of competitive bidding rates nationwide, says The Council for Quality Respiratory Care.The report, published by The Moran Company, highlights several “deficiencies” with the program, including: use of non-binding bids; use of the median bid to calculate payment amounts; and use of composite bids, which it says incentivizes bidders to “game the system” by bidding low for...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Carolina's Home Medical Equipment has made Inc. magazine's 2015 list of Fastest Growing Private Companies in the U.S. for the fourth consecutive year. The company ranked in the top 15 healthcare companies in North Carolina. “Having experienced a 50% reimbursement cut from most payers over the last three to four years, it is clear to me that the relationships we have with our customers and referral sources made this possible,” said Frank Trammell, president and CEO, in...