Tag: Durable Medical Equipment (DME)
King Drug and Home Care grows where access is thin
May 29, 2026HME News Staff
OWENSBORO, Ky. – King Drug and Home Care’s newest location puts DME closer to where patients in Owensboro are already receiving care.
Located near the hospital, doctor’s offices and a retail center, the new East-side location gives patients and referral sources another access point in a market where reimbursement pressure, consolidation and provider exits have made convenience harder to maintain.
“Being close to the hospital seemed to be a no-brainer,” said Amy...
UHC, Synapse Health expand DME agreement to Northeast
May 28, 2026HME News Staff
SKOKIE, Ill. – UnitedHealthcare has announced that Synapse Health will manage durable medical equipment (DME) orders for certain UnitedHealthcare Medicare Advantage plans in additional states beginning Sept. 1, 2026.
For individual HMO & PPO plans, Synapse Health will manage DME for members in Connecticut, District of Columbia, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island.
For chronic special needs plans (C-SNP), Synapse...
CMS expands scope of stay-of-enrollment
May 14, 2026HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on May 18 will begin applying additional scenarios where stay-of-enrollment can be applied on non-compliant DMEPOS suppliers, AAHomecare reports. Those scenarios:
Liability insurance and surety bond cancellations
Site visit non-compliance determinations
Failure to respond to development requests within 30 days for revalidations or changes to information
Background
Stay-of-enrollment is a preliminary action CMS can take...
ProCare launches new DME service line
May 8, 2026HME News Staff
TAMPA, Fla. – ProCare, a privately held transportation and language services provider in the workers compensation industry, has launched a new durable medical equipment (DME) service line. The company says it developed its DME program to address common industry challenges, including billing complexity, communication gaps, adherence issues and rising costs. “Health care is evolving and injured workers expect simpler, faster and more connected experiences,” said Cortland Reilly, CEO...
NYC Care marks successful first year for DME program
May 7, 2026HME News Staff
NEW YORK – NYC Care in its first year supported 2,652 patients with low- and no-cost durable medical equipment (DME) to support increased autonomy, reduced risk of injury, improved quality of life, and better pain management. NYC Care members access low- and no-cost DME like CPAP machines and associated accessories, diabetes-related supplies, mobility devices, and urinary supplies through its exclusive partner AdaptHealth. “Since we launched the durable medical equipment benefit last...
Coral, hot off investment, says, ‘We are just getting started'
April 20, 2026HME News Staff
NEW YORK – Coral, a health care automation platform built for durable medical equipment (DME) and other specialty providers, has announced a $12.5 million investment led by Lightspeed and Z47 to grow its team and enhance its products.
The platform connects to existing EHR systems, fax lines and payer portals and automates end-to-end administrative workflows.
“Every person in the health care system is being slowed down by the same thing: administrative work that was never built to...
Parachute Health helps build ‘digital rails’
April 17, 2026Liz Beaulieu, Editor
NEW YORK – As payers look for ways to streamline ordering and reduce administrative burden, many are turning to DME Navigator, an EHR-integrated ordering platform developed by OptumInsight and CareCentrix. Big picture, the platform – which uses a framework built by Parachute Health – also helps DME providers move to where the puck is going, says the company’s CEO, David Gelbard.
Payers adopt DME Navigator
Molina Healthcare is among the newest payers to announce that...
MiraVista to host webinar on role of indie DME suppliers
March 25, 2026HME News Staff
MiraVista to host webinar on role of indie DME suppliers
YARMOUTH, Maine – MiraVista is hosting “The Once and Future Role of the Independent DME Supplier” on March 31, 2026, at 2:00 PM ET, a free webinar bringing together a cross-disciplinary panel of experts to discuss a regulatory environment that increasingly and incorrectly brands small and independent durable medical equipment suppliers as core causes of fraud, waste, and...
Doc sentenced in telemedicine scheme, ordered to pay restitution
March 25, 2026HME News Staff
BOSTON – An Alabama-based doctor has been sentenced to 16 months in prison for a $2.7 million telemedicine fraud scheme involving medically unnecessary durable medical equipment (DME) and genetic testing primarily used to detect mutations in genes that could indicate a higher risk of developing certain types of cancers. Tommie Robinson, 44, was sentenced on March 20 by U.S. Senior District Court Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton in Boston. Robinson was also ordered to pay $2,784,733.49...
Man pleads guilty to making false statements in DME, genetic testing scheme
March 24, 2026HME News Staff
BOSTON – A Florida-based doctor has pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston to making false statements in connection with a multi-million-dollar health care fraud scheme involving medically unnecessary genetic testing and durable medical equipment (DME), according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts. Between February 2020 and June 2020, Simon Grinshteyn, 52, worked with a purported telemedicine company to sign medical documentation, including doctor orders,...