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Rehab/Mobility
Golden Technologies Voted Among Best Places to Work in NEPA
December 31, 2017
OLD FORGE, PA – Golden Technologies has been voted among the Best Places to Work in Northeastern Pennsylvania sponsored by the Times Leader Media Group’s reader contest honoring businesses and organizations. The contest is meant to highlight
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Legislative/Advocacy
AAHomecare in Action – CMS Releases CURES-Related Reimbursement Guidance to State Medicaid Directors
December 31, 2017
WASHINGTON, DC – As mandated in the December 2016 CURES bill, federal Medicaid reimbursement to states for home medical equipment cannot exceed what Medicare would have allowed for these items, in aggregate, beginning on January 1, 2018. Last w
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General Healthcare
Exclusion from Federal Health Care Programs – Part 2
December 31, 2017
AMARILLO, TX – When hiring an individual, it is important that the DME supplier check the applicant’s name against the OIG’s Exclusion List. On a regular basis, it is also important that the supplier check all of its employees against the O
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Legislative/Advocacy
FODAC Seeking Donations for Hurricane Relief
December 31, 2017
STONE MOUNTAIN, GA – Georgia-based Friends of Disabled Adults and Children (FODAC at www.fodac.org) is seeking donations for Puerto Rico and all three Virgin Islands. Items can be shipped to 4900 Lewis Road, Stone Mountain, GA 30083. E-mail Chr
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General Healthcare
HME – 2017 Year in Review
December 30, 2017
January 2017 FDA Clears World’s Smallest CPAP – the AirMini by Medtrade exhibitor ResMed – SAN DIEGO – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared ResMed’s AirMini CPAP. ResMed officials call the AirMini the “world’s
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Legislative/Advocacy
Study on Supplemental Oxygen Therapy Suggests Pressures on HME Sector Is Impacting Oxygen Patients
December 25, 2017
WASHINGTON, DC – The American Thoracic Society (ATS) recently released a study on the patient experience for home oxygen therapy that reinforces some of the findings of the recent HME Patient Access Study sponsored by AAHomecare. The ATS st