NASHVILLE – On January 8, the State of Tennessee announced that its “block grant” waiver request for TennCare (the state Medicaid program) was approved by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) after a year of negotiation. Thi

MESA, AZ – Phoenix-based Valley Medical Supplies has been acquired by Copper Star Home Medical Supplies (Mesa, Arizona). With this acquisition, Valley Medical and Copper Star will combine their business models. Current Copper Star president and own

AMARILLO, TX – These are strange times. I was hoping that 2021 would be calmer. Unfortunately, it has not started out that way. Notwithstanding all of the uncertainties we are facing, there are some absolutes that we can count on: The U.S. popu

BILLINGS, MT – Eric Ecker, manager at St. Vincent Medical Supply and Mobility, Billings, Montana, never intended to be in the DME business. As a newly minted graduate with a business degree from Montana State University more than two decades ag

WASHINGTON, DC – On Dec. 21, 2020, both the House and Senate passed a COVID-19 relief bill that included provisions addressing a Medicare payment disparity for oxygen products in rural areas – fixing a problem AAHomecare first shared with our

AMARILLO, TX – Back in the nineties, a number of hospitals entered the DME space by either owning 100% of a DME operation or co-owning a DME supplier with an unrelated DME company. This latter arrangement is known as a joint venture. Simply put