Tag: Portable
Belluscura inks deal with McKesson
August 4, 2023HME News Staff
LONDON AND PLANO, Texas – Belluscura has signed a distribution agreement with McKesson Medical-Surgical to distribute its X-PLOR portable oxygen concentrator. “We continue to expand the distribution of the X-PLOR throughout the U.S. and this exciting agreement will extend our reach to patients seeking access to best-in-class devices," said Robert Fary, senior vice president of global sales, Belluscura. In April, Belluscura secured a marketing agreement with the popular website...
Tricare covers travel CPAP machines
January 2, 2020HME News Staff
WASHINGTON - Tricare will cover portable CPAP machines retroactive to Jan. 24, 2019, if certain conditions are met, Military.com reports. The health insurer for military members and their families will cover CPAP machines if a member has been diagnosed with OSA and is being deployed or travels on official business at least three days a month. Tricare has transitioned from an individual to a blanket waiver for these active-duty members at the request of service branches, an official from the insurer...
ResMed set to launch travel CPAP
January 10, 2017HME News Staff
SAN DIEGO - ResMed has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its AirMini, a device that the company says is “the world's smallest continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) device.” ResMed expects to launch the AirMini later this year. It is designed as a secondary CPAP, making it easier for users to continue their sleep therapy while traveling. “ResMed AirMini is the portable travel CPAP patients and home medical equipment providers have been waiting...
Inova combines stationary, portable therapy
July 1, 2014HME News Staff
AUSTIN, Texas - Inova Labs has received FDA clearance for Activox Duo2, a fully integrated stationary and portable oxygen concentrator (POC) system. Activox Duo2 combines the benefits of a home-use stationary concentrator with the portability of Inova's LifeChoice Activox POC. Activox Duo2 offers up to 5 LPM continuous flow oxygen for patients at home and up to 3 LPMeg Pulse-Wave oxygen delivery for active patients out of the home using the POC. “Activox Duo2 was designed to provide patients...
Vendors dissect GAO study
June 23, 2011Liz Beaulieu, Editor
YARMOUTH, Maine - Did anyone else raise an eyebrow when the Government Accountability Office stated in a recent report that use of portable oxygen concentrators has gone down while use of stationary concentrators has gone up from 2001 to 2008?
Shouldn't it be the other way around?
The GAO theorizes that the way Medicare pays for oxygen therapy--its rental payment for stationary concentrators includes payment for portable oxygen refills even though, one-third of the time, they're not...
Survey on oxygen reform says...
September 2, 2009Mike Moran
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.
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