Tag: Home medical supplies
Medline upgrades TrackPoint inventory management solution
October 15, 2026HME News Staff
NORTHFIELD, Ill. – Medline has launched an enhanced version of TrackPoint, its online inventory management and patient item usage solution. TrackPoint is designed to help long-term care and inpatient hospice providers more easily track supplies from Medline, capture patient-level usage and gain visibility into inventory across locations. "We know that our customers, especially in post-acute care, often don't have access to inventory management solutions and charge-capturing systems...
CMS adds 11 medical supply companies to Preclusion List
September 9, 2026HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has identified and is barring 11 medical supply companies with more than $3.4 billion in suspected fraudulent billing practices in 2025 and 2026 from receiving future Medicare Advantage (MA) Part C and Part D payments.
According to the agency, these 11 durable medical equipment, prosthetics, orthotics, and supplies (DMEPOS) suppliers:
Had submitted no claims prior to 2025
Used improper billing practices for their claims
Had...
JJ Pistoor moves into top role for Medical Supplies Council
August 24, 2026HME News Staff
WOBURN, Mass. – Geriatric Medical and DDP Medical Supply have announced that JJ Pistoor, chief revenue officer, has been named chair of AAHomecare’s Medical Supplies Council. Pistoor, who previously served as vice chair of the council, will now lead the council’s work on behalf of member companies nationwide. “I’m honored to have been selected to lead this council,” he said. “It’s a privilege to work alongside such a committed group of providers, manufacturers...
Cardinal Health sees more runway in fragmented at-home medical supplies market
August 12, 2026Liz Beaulieu, Editor
DUBLIN, Ohio – Cardinal Health says its acquisitions of Strive Medical and AdaptHealth's diabetes business are expected to add about two percentage points of growth to its Other segment in fiscal year 2027.
Officials say the company recently completed its acquisition of Strive Medical and it expects to complete its acquisition of AdaptHealth’s diabetes business sometime in the second half of the year.
The deals strengthen Cardinal Health's position in the growing at-home...
Medline marks six decades in business
June 3, 2026HME News Staff
NORTHFIELD, Ill. - Medline celebrates its 60th anniversary this month. Founded by brothers Jim and Jon Mills, the company began as a modest, family-run operation that manufactured health care apparel for providers in and around Chicago – a natural evolution from the meat-packing aprons, surgical gowns and nurses’ attire that the brothers’ grandfather, A.L. Mills, had started supplying local customers two generations earlier.
Today, the company:
Distributes approximately...
Medline grows partnership with T.J. Regional Health
May 27, 2026HME News Staff
NORTHFIELD, Ill. – Medline has signed an expanded prime vendor agreement with Glasgow, Ky.-based T.J. Regional Health to provide care to patients across south-central Kentucky through its network of two hospitals and other outpatient and specialty care facilities. With this agreement, T.J. Regional Health will gain access to Medline’s portfolio of lab products, expanding its existing access to medical-surgical supplies. The agreement also provides access to Medline’s robust distribution...
Medline to pilot warehouse automation platform from Symbotic
April 20, 2026HME News Staff
NORTHFIELD, Ill. – Medline has announced a strategic agreement to be the first health care company to implement next-generation warehouse automation from Symbotic as part of its ongoing efforts to strengthen the resiliency, efficiency and scalability of the health care supply chain. The company will pilot the technology in 2027 at one of its 45 distribution centers. “Our vertically integrated solution of manufacturing and distributing products to all points of care is unique among healthcare...
Closing the loop: Verhulst brings personal insight, big ‑picture vision to HCD
March 20, 2026Theresa Flaherty
RICHMOND, Va. – Home Care Delivered (HCD) has named industry veteran Chris Verhulst chief growth officer, tapping his two decades of health care experience and personal connection to home care to help close gaps in a fragmented system.
“Home care continues to present significant growth opportunities as the industry shifts care from high-cost inpatient settings to the home – where patients not only prefer to be, but often achieve better outcomes,” said Verhulst, whose experience...
In brief: AAH’s call to action, DreamStation’s new designation, CMS’s new ABN
March 20, 2026HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – AAHomecare is urging providers to build support for the DIABETES Act (S. 4037), which, among other things, would delay Medicare competitive bidding for continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) and insulin pumps for five years.
The bill, which was introduced March 12 by Sens. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, would also expand Medicare coverage of diabetes self-management training sessions.
AAHomecare says stakeholders can build important early support for this...
Medical Supplies council extends impact survey
March 19, 2026HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – AAHomecare’s Medical Supplies Council is extending the deadline for a nationwide Market Impact Survey to assess the ongoing effects of reimbursement levels, supply chain volatility, product and operational costs, and staffing pressures across a variety of disposable supplies, as well as continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) and insulin infusion pumps. The association says insights gathered from the 2026 survey will be critical in advocacy...