Tag: Referrals
Referral Intake: Keep it simple
March 16, 2026Bruna Dos Santos
Q. What are the keys to building and maintaining referral relationships?
A. Revenue and patient efficacy are heavily impacted by referral relationships. Physicians making referrals can and will change where they are sending patients because of a burdensome referral process or patient experience. Referring providers will default to whoever makes their lives easiest and can get their patients the care they need as quickly as possible. And a negative or positive experience can affect your reputation...
Tennr reimagines referral-based care with $101M boost and launch of coordinated patient network
June 18, 2025HME News Staff
NEW YORK – Tennr has announced a $101 million Series C led by IVP, with participation from new and existing investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed, GV, ICONIQ, Foundation Capital, and Frank Slootman.
Tennr has built an orchestration platform and language models designed to automate the labor-intensive workflows of referral-based care.
The company is now launching Tennr Network, a new coordination layer that it says connects referring providers, receiving providers...
Philips settles allegations of induced referrals
September 26, 2022HME News Staff
PITTSBURGH – Philips RS North America, formerly known as Respironics, has agreed to pay $1.28 million to settle allegations that it unlawfully induced referrals for its equipment in violation of the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute, the Department of Justice has announced.
The government specifically alleged that, between December 2015 and December 2016, Respironics helped a DME supplier procure a twelve-month, interest-free loan that was fully guaranteed by Respironics....
Round 5: Independent vs. hospital-affiliated HME providers
October 25, 2010Liz Beaulieu, Editor
I had no idea of the lightning that would strike when we wrote a story about the increased competition between independent and hospital-affiliated HME providers (HME News, October 2010).
The lay of the land
Following that story, we wrote about a bill introduced by Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich., that would allow hospital-affiliated HME providers in competitive bidding areas to continue providing products and services to their patients at the winning bid amounts regardless of whether or not they...