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Medtrade Spring Day Two – Legislative Gurus Paint IFR Picture; Show Floor Opens
March 29, 2018
LAS VEGAS – Oversized ribbon-cutting scissors stayed in the closet this time, but the show floor opened promptly at 9:30 a.m. to welcome robust foot traffic on day two of Medtrade Spring at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas. During a
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Cara C. Bachenheimer to Launch New DC Lobbying Office of Brown & Fortunato
March 25, 2018
AMARILLO, TX – Invacare’s long-time senior VP of Government Relations, Cara C. Bachenheimer, is set to launch a new DC Lobbying Office of Brown & Fortunato, P.C. The move is set to take effect on June 1, 2018. Brown & Fortunato, P.C. is a
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Time for Medtrade Spring Â
March 25, 2018
LAS VEGAS – Only one more day to go until Medtrade Spring, the desert version of the nation’s premiere HME-focused trade show. I’ve been at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center for the past couple of days in preparation, and the pallets are rolli
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AAHomecare Preps for Medtrade Spring
March 24, 2018
LAS VEGAS – Leadership of the American Association for Homecare will be back once again at Medtrade Spring for AAHomecare’s Washington Update, scheduled for Wednesday, March 28, from 8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. in Room South Pacific E at
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Strong Push Needed on House and Senate Appropriations Committees
March 11, 2018
by Tom Ryan, president and CEO, American Association for Homecare WASHINGTON, DC – When CMS announced that they had sent an HME-related Interim Final Rule (IFR) to the Office of Management & Budget in late August of last year, many in the H
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AAHomecare Works With CMS to Fix PECOS Enrollment Issue
March 4, 2018
WASHINGTON, DC – AAHomecare has been working for many months with CMS and the Jurisdiction D Council to fix a claims system problem related to physician’s PECOS enrollment. When the requirement was introduced in 2013 that a prescriber orderin