Tag: Cash Flow
Caire launches program to help with cash flow
May 20, 2016HME News Staff
BALL GROUND, Ga. - Caire, a Chart Industries company, has launched a new program to help HME providers in today's challenging reimbursement environment. As part of the Caire Cash Flow Management Program, providers can purchase a complete oxygen setup for $54 per month for 36 months with free shipping. “We understand the challenges that the industry faces and we have created a program that helps our provider partners address some of the challenges stemming from national competitive bidding,”...
Finance: Project your cash flow
May 24, 2012Tom Shay
A. For a business to have a comfortable amount of cash on hand, the business cannot be experiencing a tremendous growth or a comparable downturn in business. When there is a lack of sales, the business will have a tendency to require you to sell off inventory to pay the operating expenses. Of course, if you need all of that inventory to produce what sales you have, then you find yourself with a lack of cash.
At the opposite end of the spectrum is the business that is experiencing a sizable increase...
The first year will be the most painful
April 2, 2010Liz Beaulieu, Editor
Here's the thing about the elimination of the first-month purchase option for standard power wheelchairs: The first year may be the most painful. After that, it may just be the same-old, same-old.
When providers talk about losing their ability to collect all the reimbursement for standard power wheelchairs in that first month, they talk mostly about how it's going to negatively affect their cash flow. They talk about how they're going to have to get financing to tide them over from the time they...
Big vs. small
March 26, 2010Liz Beaulieu, Editor
This week, when I was calling providers to ask them about the elimination of the first-month purchase option for standard power wheelchairs, one provider's comments caught me off guard.
The provider wishes to remain anonymous and you'll see why.
“Technically, I'm not going to make a lot of noise about this,” he said. “We're finding that the companies doing TV ads are really starting to grow and do more products in our area, and if this provision puts a monkey wrench in their business,...