Tag: CPAP Resupply

ATLANTA - Brightree's acquisition of SnapWorx ups the company's CPAP resupply game, allowing it to better serve providers of varying sizes, says CEO Matt Mellott.Here's what Mellott had to say about SnapWorx's “intelligent technology” and why providers should be increasingly looking to apply that technology to the resupply process.On the Snap difference“They've focused on call center workflow optimization, things different than what Brightree has been focused on in the past, as...

ATLANTA - Brightree has signed on to buy SnapWorx, a Brentwood, Tenn.-based software company that provides a patient contact management and workflow optimization platform for the CPAP resupply market. ResMed CEO Mick Farrell announced the deal during the company's Jan. 30 conference call to discuss its financial results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2020. “The combination of Brightree's technology and logistical services with this new SnapWorx technology creates the largest...

MINNEAPOLIS - Mark Boardman has sold his HME business to focus on his proprietary CPAP resupply platform and live-call program called Sleep Coaches. Boardman first developed the program for his business, after realizing there had to be a better way to connect with his CPAP patients, who only responded to automated phone calls about 15% of the time. “Right after the patient is set up on CPAP, we have respiratory therapists start following up and we let the patient know that they have...

SAN DIEGO - ResMed reported net revenues of $736.2 million for the second quarter ended Dec. 31, 2019, compared to $651.1 million for the same period in 2018, a 13% increase. Net income was $160.6 million compared to $124.6 million, a 29% increase. “We had a strong December quarter with double-digit top-line growth and further gross margin expansion, as well as continued fiscal discipline that resulted in improvements in operating leverage and double-digit growth at the bottom line,”...

WASHINGTON - AAHomecare emphasized the importance of coordinated care in its comments to CMS on possibly relaxing the Stark Law.The Stark Law is designed to prevent physicians from ordering services and products for Medicare beneficiaries when the motivation is to make money.In its comments, however, AAHomecare states that the Stark Law may “overly limit” healthcare providers—not only physicians but also HME providers, therapists (respiratory, physical and occupational), home health...

WATERLOO, Iowa - VGM Fulfillment has opened a resupply distribution center in Nashville, Tenn. The 40,000-square-foot warehouse is staffed with 22 existing employees who are familiar with CPAP resupply, according to a press release. “Expanding our operations to a logistics hub like Nashville allows us to route some of our resupply order volume to the new facility—ensuring that patients located in the southern and eastern United States will receive their orders even quicker, resulting...

Seeking encouraging news among the chronic beleaguerment in the HME market can be a challenge, but one area where providers may find hope is with sleep therapy. As the category matures, awareness of obstructive sleep apnea is growing among the public and in the physician community, where more patients are being prescribed CPAP therapy.VGM Respiratory, a division of Waterloo, Iowa-based VGM Group, has seen the growth firsthand.“Family practice and internal medicine physicians, as well as nurse...

WATERLOO, Iowa - VGM Fulfillment has launched a compression stocking resupply program. The new program complements its existing CPAP resupply program, which ships more than 2 million orders annually, according to a press release. “We are excited to expand our offering of services outside of CPAP fulfillment to include compression stocking fulfillment,” said Jeremy Stolz, president of VGM Fulfillment. “Similar to CPAP, the compression market is growing. This new service allows the...

ATLANTA - Brightree has launched Brightree ConnectPRO, a CPAP resupply management program that combines Brightree's technology, services and data analytics into one solution to manage and retain patients. Brightree ConnectPRO includes: Brightree Connect patient contact management software; Performance Concierge Services; Revenue Cycle Management Resupply Intake Services, which includes processing all paperwork and verification of benefits; AllCall Connect; and data analytics. “We have witnessed...

ATLANTA - When CMS rolled out competitive bidding pricing nationwide in 2016, Brightree leadership spent much of the next year on the road to see and understand firsthand the challenges their provider customers were facing.“This challenge magnified the urgency of our mission and compressed the timetable we had set for ourselves for meeting with customers and developing needed solutions,” said CEO Matt Mellott, who replaced Dave Cormack as CEO in July of last year, just as the second and...