Medtrade Spring – Calculated Risks Are Worth Taking

February 1, 2020
LAS VEGAS – In exactly a month, we’ll start Medtrade Spring at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas. Plenty of providers attend Medtrade Spring and Medtrade, but exhibitors know that there really is not much crossover among the two

Grassroots Action Needed to Push HME Legislation Forward

January 26, 2020
WASHINGTON, DC – AAHomecare continues to work with industry champions on Capitol Hill to advance HME policy priorities and increase chances to have provisions from HR 2771 and HR 4945 included in future omnibus legislative packages. AAHomecare offi

We Succeeded by Working Together

January 25, 2020
SACRAMENTO, CA – We the DMEs in California were powerless. The California Department of Health Services (DHCS) sent out a notice on Dec. 23, 2018 effective Jan. 1, 2019, that our Medi-Cal was going to go to 80% of Medicare’s non-rural rates f

Supreme Court Opts to Hear Pharmacy Regulation Issue

January 12, 2020
ALEXANDRIA, VA – The National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) cheered the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last week to hear an Arkansas case to decide whether ERISA preempts (supersedes) a state law that regulates pharmacy benefit mana

Streamlined Order Process a Positive Development

January 12, 2020
WASHINGTON, DC – As AAHomecare noted last week, CMS has streamlined DMEPOS Medicare order requirements, replacing multiple order types with a Standard Written Order. The new guidance offers these benefits: fewer elements will be required on all

It’s Time to Turn Up the Pressure

January 12, 2020
WASHINGTON, DC – The clock is ticking. We’re likely to see one more round of regulations governing CB Round 2021 this Summer as well as the release of rates produced from last year’s bids. With those pending mileposts in mind, as well as Pr