Tag: Health systems
Tennr adds general manager to focus on health systems
November 10, 2025HME News Staff
NEW YORK – Tennr is bringing on Maulik Shah as general manager to help health systems streamline referral qualification and routing, improve patient access and ensure they’re reimbursed accurately and on time. In his past work experience, Shah has helped health systems implement electronic health records (EHRs) at Epic, guided hospitals in getting the most out of those systems at Huron and enabled clinicians to...
Newspoll: Provider-payer trends raise concerns over access, choice
October 29, 2025Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
YARMOUTH, Maine – Larger HME providers appear to be increasingly partnering with health systems, a trend that the respondents to a recent HME Newspoll say threatens access and limits patient choice.
Sixty percent of respondents reported seeing an increase in joint ventures or preferred agreements between larger providers and health systems in their markets.
“From a market perspective, these consolidated relationships are reshaping referral patterns and creating barriers...
Quipt ‘embeds’ with health systems
August 13, 2025HME News Staff
CINCINNATI – A new joint venture will allow Quipt Home Medical to grow its patient base right from the source – hospital discharges, say company execs.
The JV is anchored by three “powerhouse” health systems – Henry Ford Health, McLaren Health Care and Blanchard Valley Health System – and will provide a “scalable blueprint for future partnerships,” said CEO Greg Crawford.
“These partnerships embed us into the discharge process...
Do health systems want in or out?
March 21, 2016John Andrews
The issue of whether HME businesses are a good fit with health systems has been debated for decades and a Michigan health system's decision to sell its HME business to a regional chain has begun the discussion anew.North Ottawa Community Health System in Grand Haven, Mich., recently sold its HME business to CareLinc Home Medical & Equipment Supply in Grand Rapids due to declining Medicare reimbursement. A hospital official told the local newspaper that the organization “knew it was something...