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  1. AAHomecare: "Large disconnect that CMS has no problems"
  2. Bid Winner: "I can't tell you yet we're a survivor"
  3. Complaints Keep Rolling into www.billingfeedback.com
  4. CMS: Round One 'Very Smooth'
  5. Medtrade Spring Preview: Get Ahead of Audits
  6. CMS Has Delayed Round 2? What Does That Mean?
  7. Accrediting Organizations Receiving Increasing Number of Complaints About Providers
  8. Competitive Bidding Hearing Draws A Crowd - Agency Rejects Advice
  9. CMS Issues FAQ's on Competitive Bidding Transition
  10. Invacare SVP Bachenheimer Details Issues Facing HME Industry
  11. Medtrade Offers Lunch & Learn Event
  12. CMS Auditors Incorrectly Interpret Wording, Causes Alarm
  13. Dallas Mired in Competitive Bidding Difficulties
  14. Complex Rehab Providers Head to Washington to Lobby for Separate Benefit
  15. HME Provider Goes Green and Sees Savings
  16. "Hospital to Home" Program Aims to Assist Respiratory Patients' Transition
  17. CMS Working On Round 2 of Competitive Bidding
  18. Scooter Store CEO Predicts Large Providers Will Fare Better than Small
  19. Top 4 Diabetic Supply Companies Fail to Win Bids
  20. AAHomecare Logs 100+ CB Complaints
  21. Apria Acquires Praxair's U.S. Homecare Business
  22. Who's On The Hook For Wheelchair Repairs?
  23. How the Cleveland Clinic Won a Competitive Bidding Contract
  24. AAHomecare Sends Letter to POTUS
  25. Poll Respondent Fears "Undue Chaos" Unless CB Repealed
  26. ATG Rehab Owners Bring on PE Firm - More Acquisitions Planned
  27. Pride Takes Page Out of Smartphones, Using QR Codes
  28. Providers Forced to Take Wheelchairs Back From Patients Under New Model
  29. Beginners Guide to Abbreviations in the DME/HME Industry
  30. VGM Employees Become Vested in Employee Stock Option Plan (ESOP)
  31. CPAP Industry Sees Wild Tweets on Twitter
  32. Medical Mart (Rock Hill, SC) Shuts Down
  33. NCPA Wants Bidding Exemption for Small Pharmacies
  34. 100mph Car Chase Ensues After HME Van Stolen
  35. AAHomecare Launches Complaint Site: www.biddingfeedback.com
  36. Praxair Wants to Ditch Home Care
  37. Round One Complaints Rolling In
  38. Audits Go Beyond Unfair, AAHomecare Says
  39. Philips Acquires MedSage
  40. Most Orlando Bid Winners Not Local
  41. CBA Winner: "We're Pretty Darn Efficient"
  42. Wanted: Used Wheelchairs
  43. CMS' Answer to Fraud: No More Supplier Numbers
  44. "If We Haven't Heard of Them, That Doesn't Bode Well": Invacare
  45. Tips on Retail Selling
  46. CB: Can't Stop It... Delay It
  47. "No Quick Fix" to Bidding System - New Study
  48. Roberta Domos: Enough is Enough
  49. Site Launches to Search and Find Winning Bidders
  50. Experienced Providers Replaced With Unknowns
  51. Medtrade Spotlight
  52. "That's Flat Out Wrong" - Invacare
  53. Reinvent. Or Very Few HME's Will Still Be Standing: William Griffin
  54. Flaws in Competitive Bidding: Professor at Ball State University
  55. Physician Fee Schedule - New Rules Released by CMS
  56. CMS Announces Round 1 Bid Winners
  57. Absence of Transparency at CMS: AAHomecare
  58. Lincare Launches Company to Help Patients Measure Blood Clots
  59. Homecare Magazine Shares its "Competitive Bidding Stories"
  60. CMS Bidding Program Violates Auction Rules: CRE Economist
  61. Do Hospital-Affiliated HME Providers Have Unfair Advantage?
  62. CB Questions to Be Answered at Meetings in Ohio
  63. Up to 25% of Physicians Not Enrolled in PECOS: AAHomecare
  64. CMS Updates Bid Site, AMEPA Accuses CMS of "Incompetence"
  65. The Scooter Store -- New Competition?
  66. "Many Providers Don't Have a Plan at All": Invacare SVP
  67. Are Hospitals Doing More Self-Referring?
  68. 'We've got to find a different way to survive in this market'
  69. "Bid Amounts Well Below Cost on 95% of What we Sell" Inc 500 HME Provider
  70. Bid Winners to be Released "After Dust Settles" - CMS Says
  71. VGM VP Wants House Members to Think "How Do We Fix This?" re: Competitive Bidding
  72. Enrollment Standards Being Imposed by CMS
  73. CMS "Violating Their Own Rules" by Awarding Rotech CB Contracts - AMEPA Spokesperson
  74. Solid Business Plan the Key to Surviving, Getting Funding
  75. MI, MD, OH Put Out their "Suicide Bidding" Press Release
  76. Private Insurances Stand to Benefit from "Strike Force" Fraud Detection Dollars
  77. $1.7B to Fight Healthcare Fraud
  78. Matching Federal Medicaid Funding is Moving Forward
  79. Maine Provider Adds Mattresses and Shoes at Retail to Counter Medicare Woes
  80. Former CompUSA CEO Backs Expanding HME Holding Company
  81. Committee to Save Independents Launches Survey to Collect Bid Data
  82. Lincare CEO States Reimbursement Cuts Could Sacrifice Critical Patient Services
  83. Revenues Up at Invacare, Lincare
  84. Charlotte, NC Provider Appears on Radio Show
  85. Rotech Healthcare Signs 17 CMS CB Contracts
  86. CMS Director Dodges Questions from AA Homecare VP
  87. Hot Weather Puts Providers on Their Toes
  88. Providers Speculate Low-Ball Bidders Skewed Bid Process
  89. CMS Announces Bid Rates
  90. ZPIC Audit Takes Down Texas Provider
  91. 12 DME's in Brooklyn Raided by FBI, IRS, ICE Agents
  92. Competitive Bidding Program is an "Anti-Fraud Mechanism" Says GAO and OIG
  93. North Carolina Mobility Provider Rolling Out Franchise Opportunities Nationwide
  94. CMS to Announce Bid Amounts on June 25th
  95. Power Wheelchair Saves Woman's Life In Burning Fire, But Ramp Would Have Been Nice
  96. Polls Show 30-50% of Providers Plan to Exit HME as Competitive Bidding Rolls out Nati
  97. North Carolina Association Uses "Suicide Bidding" Term to Garner Media Attention
  98. Gentiva's Acquisition of Odyssey Creates Largest Home Health / Hospice Company
  99. Indiana Mobility Provider Expands Services in Response to Competitive Bidding Threat
  100. Attn: DMEPOS Suppliers – Get Ready for Online Enrollment!
  101. Texas Alliance Files Suit Against CMS
  102. CMS Implements 12-Month Timely Filing Limit - Effective January 1, 2010
  103. Denied Medicare Subscriber Gains Plentiful Media Attention in Southern CA
  104. American Homepatient Makes Move to Avoid Bankruptcy
  105. Providers Playing it Safe in Current HME Environment
  106. Cash is King
  107. Team Invacare Athletes Dominate Boston Marathon
  108. H.R. 3790 - "The Problem Is Getting the Legislation to the House Floor": AAHomecare
  109. The Healthcare Consumer: An HME Perspective
  110. Fundraiser for Disabled in Atlanta Raises Money for their HME Needs
  111. NAMES' PR Firm Looks to Publish "Good Stories" About HME
  112. Device Tax and Competive Bidding Could Put Many Providers Out of Business: AAHomecare
  113. Lincare 1Q Profit Up 68% On Higher Sales, Margins
  114. Medtrade Director Makes Key Changes for Medtrade Spring Conference
  115. Round 2 Competitive Bidding Could Expand to 100 MSA's
  116. "Medicare Shortsighted": Henry Ford Health Products VP
  117. CPAP Going Telemedicine
  118. Detecting and Preventing Medicare Fraud (Patient's Perspective)
  119. OIG Methodologies "Can't Be Trusted": AAHomecare
  120. DeVilbiss Ready to Aggressively Evaluate Acquisitions: CEO Remarks
  121. CMS Officials Actually Go and See an HME Company!
  122. GA Provider Gets Creative in Getting Congressman's Attention
  123. Kentucky HME Owner Wins Small Business Person of the Year
  124. OIG targets unsolicited telephone calls for items of DME
  125. "Bad Day for HME" Says Director of Pennsylvania Association of Medical Suppliers
  126. American Association for Homecare Alarmed by Provisions in Health Reform Law
  127. Invacare Prepares for Impact of Device Tax
  128. How Old Is Your Equipment?
  129. AMEPA Recruiting Co-Sponsors to Repeal Bill
  130. Competitive Bidding Expansion "Done Deal"
  131. Obama Targeting "Fraudsters Peddling Everything From Wheelchairs to Hospice Care"
  132. Apria Lays off 22 Reimbursement Staff in North Carolina Office
  133. ZPIC Contractor Rejects Florida Provider's Claims -- "DAILY...AUTOMATICALLY"
  134. CMS Director Tells Providers: "Bidding System Smoother ... No Significant Concerns"
  135. Providers Descend on Washington to Advance H.R. 3790
  136. Savannah HME Building Converting to Cancer Treatment Center
  137. Walgreens Restructuring Now Underway
  138. NSC Analysts "overwhelmed with work"
  139. NAIMES' "SOS Week" Ends Today (Save Our Jobs--Protect Our Patients)
  140. HME providers will emphasize around-the-clock commitment in DC
  141. More Haiti HME Relief -- NC Provides "Massive Response"
  142. HME of the Future: Automatic Reordering -- From the Stomach!
  143. MedCare Expands Reach by Partnering with Butler Memorial Hospital - Pittsburgh Area
  144. HHS's Sebelius Admits DME Fraud Was Due to Easy Setup
  145. H.R. 3790 "Desperately Needed": NAIMES
  146. Florida Medicaid Requiring Reimbursement of Overpayments - And Quick
  147. Ohio HME Pharmacy Hawks Fish Oil Online to Grow Revenues
  148. Lincare 4th Qtr Profit Drops 27%, Hurt by 1.5% Cut in Medicare Oxygen Reimbursement
  149. HME Provider Donates $2M in Wound Care Supplies to Haiti
  150. Owner of Oxygen Plus Takes to the Airwaves
  151. Maine Providers Stop Governor's 10% Medicaid Cut Proposal
  152. Gentiva(R) Health Services Sells Respiratory/HME and Infusion Businesses
  153. HME Provider Sells Jewelry to Raise Money for Van Purchase
  154. Providers in South Wanting to Charge Northern Providers $300-$500 month
  155. Carmichael's COO To Tell DC that Small Providers Will Not Survive Competitive Bidding
  156. Wheelchair Catches Fire During Cleanings at Home Health United
  157. NCAMES "Seeing a Real Increase" in Need for HME
  158. Apria Laying Off -- And Hiring
  159. Health Care Fraud Summit Snubs HME Stakeholders
  160. Medicare ZPIC Audits Can Take 90 Days or More
  161. OIG General Counsel Accuses HME's of "Schemes": Excess Profit and Kickbacks to Docs
  162. Invacare / MedWish send HME to Haiti
  163. OIG Fraud Alert "Displays Lack of Understanding": AAHomecare
  164. CERT Teleconference Turns into Venting Session
  165. Pride Medical VP Lobbies to Kill Device Tax
  166. Invacare says Device Tax Doesn't Make Sense
  167. ACHC Accreditation Given to St. Margaret's
  168. Woman's scooter her 'Christmas miracle'
  169. Univita Health Acquires Atenda Healthcare Solutions
  170. 3 out of 5 Power Wheelchair claims not meeting standards: OIG
  171. Thousands of Providers' Medicare Numbers Revoked
  172. Medical Mutual honors Invacare Corp.
  173. HHS Report -- Confirms Medicare Documentation Requirements for Power Wheelchair Claim