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Noncompliant Oxygen Patients
February 2, 2015
AMARILLO, TX – A growing challenge to DME supplierS is what to do with noncompliant oxygen patients. A supplier probably could reasonably conclude that the absence of a fully compliant recertification CMN is a technical fault to be remedied by
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Oxygen – When Can You Restart the 36-Month Cap?
January 19, 2015
AMARILLO, TX – The 36-month oxygen rental period can restart in the following situations: • the supplier “abandons” its oxygen patients; • the supplier files a Chapter 7 bankruptcy or a liquidating Chapter 11; • if the beneficiary ele
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NTSB Presses Regulators and Medtrade Spring Welcomes Sleep Exhibitors
January 19, 2015
WASHINGTON, DC – The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) made it perfectly clear: they want trucking regulators to institute sleep apnea screening requirements. The requirement is thus far nothing but an item on a wish list, because the
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Mayo Clinic Offers Ten CPAP Tips
January 12, 2015
ROCHESTER, MN – Even ardent CPAP supporters admit that compliance requires education and commitment. The #1 hospital in America (Mayo Clinic), as ranked by U.S. News and World Report magazine, recently underscored the importance of proper CPAP
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Bump in the Road to Medtrade Spring
January 5, 2015
SAINT GEORGE, UT – Makers of the Zitality Slumberbump anti-snore belt are hoping to build on their Medtrade momentum when they set up shop at Medtrade Spring (Booth #1671), scheduled for March 30-April 1 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las
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Metro North Mandates Sleep Testing
January 5, 2015
BRONX, NY – A little more than a year after the Bronx train derailment that killed four people and injured more than 60, all engineers at NY-based transit company Metro North will be getting tested for sleep apnea in 2015. The engineer at the h