Medtrade Speaker Spotlight – Respiratory Guru Joe Lewarski is Back at Medtrade

September 19, 2016
ATLANTA – Joe Lewarski has attended many recent Medtrades, but now he is back heading up an educational session entitled: Home Oxygen 2016: Current Trends in Patient Population & Utilization. Lewarski, who now serves as global vice president, R

Medtrade Early Registration Ends on Sept 24 – Last Chance to Save Money

September 19, 2016
ATLANTA – Early registration for Medtrade, the nation’s premiere HME trade show, ends at midnight on Saturday, Sept 24. The show will once again be held in its familiar home at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, from Oct 31-Nov 3, 2016

Appealing a Non-Assigned Claim – Designation by Beneficiary

September 19, 2016
AMARILLO, TX – As I have discussed in recent Medtrade Monday articles, the DME industry is shifting away from the classic “assignment” model (i.e., the supplier bills and collects from Medicare) to the “non-assigned” model (i.e., the pa

New NCB Assessment Under Fire

September 12, 2016
WASHINGTON, DC – A Sept 8 press release from CMS contends that the nationwide competitive bidding (NCB) program “is going smoothly with few inquiries or complaints and no negative beneficiary health outcomes.” The latest 1,200-word missive

Caretail Opportunity – Mobility Designed Preps M+D Crutch for Debut at Medtrade

September 12, 2016
ATLANTA – Max Younger, designer of the M+D Crutch, grew up seeing his father use traditional crutches and says, “I always knew the old civil war era design needed to change, and I’ve been dreaming up ways to make it better for years.”

Real World Case – Telephone Solicitation

September 12, 2016
AMARILLO, TX – Two New Jersey-based diabetic medical equipment companies and their respective owners, who are brothers, have agreed to pay $12 million to settle allegations they used a fictitious entity to make unsolicited phone calls to Medica