MED Group Fly-In Coming Soon

August 25, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – We’ve had great reports from HME providers who are making the effort to get face-to-face meetings with members of Congress and their staffers at home during the August recess period. I’m confident that these activities will

Competitive Bidding Under Fire

August 18, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – HR 4920, the new bill introduced by Reps Tiberi and Larson, is gaining traction on Capitol Hill partly due to new stories that demonstrate the impact of competitive bidding on real people. WBZ Boston published an article about

Medtrade Starts in Just Two Months

August 18, 2014
ATLANTA – Medtrade kicks off in exactly 62 days, but preparations for the nation’s premiere HME trade show have been going on for a long time. Scheduled for Oct 20-23 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Medtrade is the culminatio

Patient’s Rights vs the In-Home Rule

August 11, 2014
BAYONNE, NJ – Sometime in the recent past, CMS had made a determination that it would only provide physically disabled beneficiaries with sufficient ambulatory equipment to enable the performance of the so-called “MRADL” or the “Mobility

Audits Under Heavy Scrutiny

August 11, 2014
WASHINGTON, DC – The anecdotes are numerous, and AAHomecare is hard at work collecting stories about how audits have personally affected HME beneficiaries and providers. The information will be used to spread the word to regulatory agencies, in

You CAN Talk to Your Member of Congress

August 4, 2014
GRAND PRAIRIE, TX – We are asked almost daily by our industry’s legislative groups to contact our congressmen and women about the issues that affect our industry and our businesses. I respect our legislative leaders because they are tirel