Tag: HME News Business Summit
I have questions
November 21, 2023Liz Beaulieu, Editor
YARMOUTH, Maine – One of the most interesting takeaways from the HME News Business Summit in Charlotte, N.C., Oct. 22-24, was just how much commercial insurers care about patient satisfaction.
Brad Heath, an executive vice president with AdaptHealth, was part of a panel at the Summit on disruptive partnerships with payers. AdaptHealth, along with Rotech Healthcare, as we all know, has a contract with Humana to provide certain home medical equipment services to its Medicare Advantage...
Heard at the Summit: Scaling hospital-at-home, understanding payers & weaponizing data
November 1, 2023Liz Beaulieu, Editor
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – The administrator of Atrium Health’s hospital-at-home program provided insight into its partnership with Best Buy Health and more at the HME News Business Summit last week in Charlotte.
Colleen Hole said the partnership makes the best use of the strengths of Atrium Health, a Charlotte-based health system serving patients at 40 hospitals and hundreds of care locations, and the health division of the big box retailer.
“We’re good at operations;...
Norco Medical named 2023 Provider of the Year
October 24, 2023HME News Staff
YARMOUTH, Maine – Norco Medical, based in Boise, Idaho, was named the 2023 HME Provider of the Year at the HME News Business Summit in Charlotte on Monday night.
As part of the HME Excellence Awards hosted by HME News and sponsored by ACU-Serve, Norco Medical completed an initial application and a finalist application, providing information on its financials, quality controls, staffing and community involvement.
“We at Norco are filled with gratitude and are incredibly...
Being an early adopter, betting on providers and taking a consultative approach
November 7, 2022Liz Beaulieu, Editor
The recent HME News Business Summit, Sept. 18-20 at the Westin in downtown Nashville, Tenn., was the best yet.
Here are some snippets from the event that I think are worth highlighting:
On hospital-at-home: Medically Home’s Doug Clarke, formerly of CMS, says the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting transition of more care to the home has helped to eliminate a number of barriers to adoption. Previously, hospital-at-home didn’t take off at the agency because physicians were concerned...
In brief: Provider of the Year, DMEscripts C-suite, Advent’s buy, new enrollment contractor
September 23, 2022HME News Staff
YARMOUTH, Maine – Bellevue Healthcare, based in Bellevue, Wash., was named the 2022 HME Provider of the Year at the HME News Business Summit in Nashville on Sept. 19.
As part of the HME Excellence Awards hosted by HME News, Bellevue Healthcare completed an initial application and a finalist application, providing information on its financials, quality control, staffing and community involvement.
“Congratulations to Joel Gallion and the whole team at Bellevue Healthcare,”...
Bellevue Healthcare named Provider of the Year
September 20, 2022HME News Staff
YARMOUTH, Maine – Bellevue Healthcare, based in Bellevue, Wash., was named the 2022 HME Provider of the Year at the HME News Business Summit in Nashville on Monday night.
As part of the HME Excellence Awards hosted by HME News, Bellevue Healthcare completed an initial application and a finalist application, providing information on its financials, quality control, staffing and community involvement.
“Congratulations to Joel Gallion and the whole team at Bellevue...
Hospital-at-home: HME providers wanted
October 29, 2021Tracy Orzel
YARMOUTH, Maine - Hospital-at-home isn’t a trend, it’s a movement, and it needs HME providers, says Rami Karjian, who was the keynote speaker at the virtual HME News Business Summit in September.
The COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t just changed how people feel about going to the hospital, given the well-documented bed and staffing shortages, it’s also changed the way they view remote care, he said.
“The idea—that Amazon, frankly, started—that I'm...
Change agents
June 16, 2021Liz Beaulieu, Editor
During an intro call in June, two speakers for this year’s HME News Business Summit said they preferred to have our prep call as close as possible to the event because the rate of change in health care right now is so fast. They said, there are things that will happen in the next few months that we can’t talk about now but that we’ll want to talk about at the event. So, we scheduled another call for early September.
When I look at the education program for this year’s Summit,...
Remote monitoring: Embrace technology, gather data, drive value
November 2, 2020Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
YARMOUTH, Maine - There's “an explosion” in remote patient monitoring and HME providers need to have a firm grasp of the market if they want to benefit from the trend, says Dr. Richard Popiel. “I would encourage you to understand the market and what people are trying to do with the treatment plan,” said Popiel, senior advisor at McKinsey & Company and a member of CareCentrix's strategic advisory board.?“How do you monitor that? If you are delivering care at home and...
COVID accelerates intersection of DME, remote care
October 23, 2020Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
YARMOUTH, Maine - The COVID-19 pandemic has unlocked telehealth, creating new opportunities for home-based care and DME, particularly in rural America, says Dr. Jacob Warren.
Under the public health emergency, CMS has expanded the use of telehealth and, while it's too soon to know whether these changes will be permanent, it's unlikely that the agency will be able to put that genie back in the bottle, said Warren, a behavioral epidemiologist in the Mercer University School of...