- AAHomecare: "Large disconnect that CMS has no problems"
- Bid Winner: "I can't tell you yet we're a survivor"
- Complaints Keep Rolling into www.billingfeedback.com
- CMS: Round One 'Very Smooth'
- Medtrade Spring Preview: Get Ahead of Audits
- CMS Has Delayed Round 2? What Does That Mean?
- Accrediting Organizations Receiving Increasing Number of Complaints About Providers
- Competitive Bidding Hearing Draws A Crowd - Agency Rejects Advice
- CMS Issues FAQ's on Competitive Bidding Transition
- Invacare SVP Bachenheimer Details Issues Facing HME Industry
- Medtrade Offers Lunch & Learn Event
- CMS Auditors Incorrectly Interpret Wording, Causes Alarm
- Dallas Mired in Competitive Bidding Difficulties
- Complex Rehab Providers Head to Washington to Lobby for Separate Benefit
- HME Provider Goes Green and Sees Savings
- "Hospital to Home" Program Aims to Assist Respiratory Patients' Transition
- CMS Working On Round 2 of Competitive Bidding
- Scooter Store CEO Predicts Large Providers Will Fare Better than Small
- Top 4 Diabetic Supply Companies Fail to Win Bids
- AAHomecare Logs 100+ CB Complaints
- Apria Acquires Praxair's U.S. Homecare Business
- Who's On The Hook For Wheelchair Repairs?
- How the Cleveland Clinic Won a Competitive Bidding Contract
- AAHomecare Sends Letter to POTUS
- Poll Respondent Fears "Undue Chaos" Unless CB Repealed
- ATG Rehab Owners Bring on PE Firm - More Acquisitions Planned
- Pride Takes Page Out of Smartphones, Using QR Codes
- Providers Forced to Take Wheelchairs Back From Patients Under New Model
- Beginners Guide to Abbreviations in the DME/HME Industry
- VGM Employees Become Vested in Employee Stock Option Plan (ESOP)
- CPAP Industry Sees Wild Tweets on Twitter
- Medical Mart (Rock Hill, SC) Shuts Down
- NCPA Wants Bidding Exemption for Small Pharmacies
- 100mph Car Chase Ensues After HME Van Stolen
- AAHomecare Launches Complaint Site: www.biddingfeedback.com
- Praxair Wants to Ditch Home Care
- Round One Complaints Rolling In
- Audits Go Beyond Unfair, AAHomecare Says
- Philips Acquires MedSage
- Most Orlando Bid Winners Not Local
- CBA Winner: "We're Pretty Darn Efficient"
- Wanted: Used Wheelchairs
- CMS' Answer to Fraud: No More Supplier Numbers
- "If We Haven't Heard of Them, That Doesn't Bode Well": Invacare
- Tips on Retail Selling
- CB: Can't Stop It... Delay It
- "No Quick Fix" to Bidding System - New Study
- Roberta Domos: Enough is Enough
- Site Launches to Search and Find Winning Bidders
- Experienced Providers Replaced With Unknowns
- Medtrade Spotlight
- "That's Flat Out Wrong" - Invacare
- Reinvent. Or Very Few HME's Will Still Be Standing: William Griffin
- Flaws in Competitive Bidding: Professor at Ball State University
- Physician Fee Schedule - New Rules Released by CMS
- CMS Announces Round 1 Bid Winners
- Absence of Transparency at CMS: AAHomecare
- Lincare Launches Company to Help Patients Measure Blood Clots
- Homecare Magazine Shares its "Competitive Bidding Stories"
- CMS Bidding Program Violates Auction Rules: CRE Economist
- Do Hospital-Affiliated HME Providers Have Unfair Advantage?
- CB Questions to Be Answered at Meetings in Ohio
- Up to 25% of Physicians Not Enrolled in PECOS: AAHomecare
- CMS Updates Bid Site, AMEPA Accuses CMS of "Incompetence"
- The Scooter Store -- New Competition?
- "Many Providers Don't Have a Plan at All": Invacare SVP
- Are Hospitals Doing More Self-Referring?
- 'We've got to find a different way to survive in this market'
- "Bid Amounts Well Below Cost on 95% of What we Sell" Inc 500 HME Provider
- Bid Winners to be Released "After Dust Settles" - CMS Says
- VGM VP Wants House Members to Think "How Do We Fix This?" re: Competitive Bidding
- Enrollment Standards Being Imposed by CMS
- CMS "Violating Their Own Rules" by Awarding Rotech CB Contracts - AMEPA Spokesperson
- Solid Business Plan the Key to Surviving, Getting Funding
- MI, MD, OH Put Out their "Suicide Bidding" Press Release
- Private Insurances Stand to Benefit from "Strike Force" Fraud Detection Dollars
- $1.7B to Fight Healthcare Fraud
- Matching Federal Medicaid Funding is Moving Forward
- Maine Provider Adds Mattresses and Shoes at Retail to Counter Medicare Woes
- Former CompUSA CEO Backs Expanding HME Holding Company
- Committee to Save Independents Launches Survey to Collect Bid Data
- Lincare CEO States Reimbursement Cuts Could Sacrifice Critical Patient Services
- Revenues Up at Invacare, Lincare
- Charlotte, NC Provider Appears on Radio Show
- Rotech Healthcare Signs 17 CMS CB Contracts
- CMS Director Dodges Questions from AA Homecare VP
- Hot Weather Puts Providers on Their Toes
- Providers Speculate Low-Ball Bidders Skewed Bid Process
- CMS Announces Bid Rates
- ZPIC Audit Takes Down Texas Provider
- 12 DME's in Brooklyn Raided by FBI, IRS, ICE Agents
- Competitive Bidding Program is an "Anti-Fraud Mechanism" Says GAO and OIG
- North Carolina Mobility Provider Rolling Out Franchise Opportunities Nationwide
- CMS to Announce Bid Amounts on June 25th
- Power Wheelchair Saves Woman's Life In Burning Fire, But Ramp Would Have Been Nice
- Polls Show 30-50% of Providers Plan to Exit HME as Competitive Bidding Rolls out Nati
- North Carolina Association Uses "Suicide Bidding" Term to Garner Media Attention
- Gentiva's Acquisition of Odyssey Creates Largest Home Health / Hospice Company
- Indiana Mobility Provider Expands Services in Response to Competitive Bidding Threat
- Attn: DMEPOS Suppliers – Get Ready for Online Enrollment!
- Texas Alliance Files Suit Against CMS
- CMS Implements 12-Month Timely Filing Limit - Effective January 1, 2010
- Denied Medicare Subscriber Gains Plentiful Media Attention in Southern CA
- American Homepatient Makes Move to Avoid Bankruptcy
- Providers Playing it Safe in Current HME Environment
- Cash is King
- Team Invacare Athletes Dominate Boston Marathon
- H.R. 3790 - "The Problem Is Getting the Legislation to the House Floor": AAHomecare
- The Healthcare Consumer: An HME Perspective
- Fundraiser for Disabled in Atlanta Raises Money for their HME Needs
- NAMES' PR Firm Looks to Publish "Good Stories" About HME
- Device Tax and Competive Bidding Could Put Many Providers Out of Business: AAHomecare
- Lincare 1Q Profit Up 68% On Higher Sales, Margins
- Medtrade Director Makes Key Changes for Medtrade Spring Conference
- Round 2 Competitive Bidding Could Expand to 100 MSA's
- "Medicare Shortsighted": Henry Ford Health Products VP
- CPAP Going Telemedicine
- Detecting and Preventing Medicare Fraud (Patient's Perspective)
- OIG Methodologies "Can't Be Trusted": AAHomecare
- DeVilbiss Ready to Aggressively Evaluate Acquisitions: CEO Remarks
- CMS Officials Actually Go and See an HME Company!
- GA Provider Gets Creative in Getting Congressman's Attention
- Kentucky HME Owner Wins Small Business Person of the Year
- OIG targets unsolicited telephone calls for items of DME
- "Bad Day for HME" Says Director of Pennsylvania Association of Medical Suppliers
- American Association for Homecare Alarmed by Provisions in Health Reform Law
- Invacare Prepares for Impact of Device Tax
- How Old Is Your Equipment?
- AMEPA Recruiting Co-Sponsors to Repeal Bill
- Competitive Bidding Expansion "Done Deal"
- Obama Targeting "Fraudsters Peddling Everything From Wheelchairs to Hospice Care"
- Apria Lays off 22 Reimbursement Staff in North Carolina Office
- ZPIC Contractor Rejects Florida Provider's Claims -- "DAILY...AUTOMATICALLY"
- CMS Director Tells Providers: "Bidding System Smoother ... No Significant Concerns"
- Providers Descend on Washington to Advance H.R. 3790
- Savannah HME Building Converting to Cancer Treatment Center
- Walgreens Restructuring Now Underway
- NSC Analysts "overwhelmed with work"
- NAIMES' "SOS Week" Ends Today (Save Our Jobs--Protect Our Patients)
- HME providers will emphasize around-the-clock commitment in DC
- More Haiti HME Relief -- NC Provides "Massive Response"
- HME of the Future: Automatic Reordering -- From the Stomach!
- MedCare Expands Reach by Partnering with Butler Memorial Hospital - Pittsburgh Area
- HHS's Sebelius Admits DME Fraud Was Due to Easy Setup
- H.R. 3790 "Desperately Needed": NAIMES
- Florida Medicaid Requiring Reimbursement of Overpayments - And Quick
- Ohio HME Pharmacy Hawks Fish Oil Online to Grow Revenues
- Lincare 4th Qtr Profit Drops 27%, Hurt by 1.5% Cut in Medicare Oxygen Reimbursement
- HME Provider Donates $2M in Wound Care Supplies to Haiti
- Owner of Oxygen Plus Takes to the Airwaves
- Maine Providers Stop Governor's 10% Medicaid Cut Proposal
- Gentiva(R) Health Services Sells Respiratory/HME and Infusion Businesses
- HME Provider Sells Jewelry to Raise Money for Van Purchase
- Providers in South Wanting to Charge Northern Providers $300-$500 month
- Carmichael's COO To Tell DC that Small Providers Will Not Survive Competitive Bidding
- Wheelchair Catches Fire During Cleanings at Home Health United
- NCAMES "Seeing a Real Increase" in Need for HME
- Apria Laying Off -- And Hiring
- Health Care Fraud Summit Snubs HME Stakeholders
- Medicare ZPIC Audits Can Take 90 Days or More
- OIG General Counsel Accuses HME's of "Schemes": Excess Profit and Kickbacks to Docs
- Invacare / MedWish send HME to Haiti
- OIG Fraud Alert "Displays Lack of Understanding": AAHomecare
- CERT Teleconference Turns into Venting Session
- Pride Medical VP Lobbies to Kill Device Tax
- Invacare says Device Tax Doesn't Make Sense
- ACHC Accreditation Given to St. Margaret's
- Woman's scooter her 'Christmas miracle'
- Univita Health Acquires Atenda Healthcare Solutions
- 3 out of 5 Power Wheelchair claims not meeting standards: OIG
- Thousands of Providers' Medicare Numbers Revoked
- Medical Mutual honors Invacare Corp.
- HHS Report -- Confirms Medicare Documentation Requirements for Power Wheelchair Claim