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WASHINGTON - AAHomecare has launched ONE VOICE, a monthly videocast to discuss the major challenges that the HME industry is facing, and the importance of strong and united advocacy efforts to securing better policy results and rates at both the state and federal levels. The videocasts are hosted by Jeff Bowman, vice president of HME at McKesson, and one of the association's board members. The first videocast features Dewey Roof, president of Life HME and Life H2H; James Russell, vice president and...

It's mission critical on the competitive bidding front, and the industry needs every single provider, consultant, manufacturers reps—all industry stakeholders—to help end this wrong-headed program once and for all. The need is more urgent than ever. The healthcare reform legislation signed into law last week accelerates the bidding program. It expands bidding to 21 additional metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs) and applies prices nationwide by 2016. Nationwide means you! How can you...

Eighty-one percent of the 154 respondents to a recent NAIMES poll support reducing payments for stationary-only patients if it means maintaining payments for stationary-portable patients and increasing payments for portable patients. The majority of respondents (20%) reported that stationary-only patients make up 5% to 10% of their patient mix. The Karate Kid, Part II dvd Revolution full movie Black Hawk Down Transsiberian release Lee Evans: Big Live at the O2 movie Lock Up the movie Sex Drive...

The news coming out of Washington on healthcare reform keeps getting worse for HME. This little nugget of coal came in late Tuesday evening from AAHomecare: Boarding Gate on dvd The Texas Chain Saw Massacre dvd Scarecrows movie download Pride and Glory film Chinatown film BloodRayne II: Deliverance video The reform proposal would eliminate the first-month purchase option for all power wheelchairs, and AAHomecare expects that cuts to other programs such as oxygen therapy will be added to...