ATLANTA – Exhibitors big and small continue to sign on for Medtrade, the nation’s premiere HME event, scheduled for Oct 26-29, 2015, at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta. Travis Willoughby, production manager at Savoy, Tex-based Sn

NEWTOWN, PA – Jonathan Sadock, managing partner and CEO of Pa-based Paragon Ventures, has seen providers go out of business, but those who remain have learned about survival in challenging times. “The strongest companies have survived,” say

AMARILLO, TX – Recently, some states have adopted laws or regulations that require DME suppliers to have a physical location either within the state or within a certain proximity to the state’s border. These laws vary from state to state, wit

NEW YORK – In an earlier editorial (HME Innovation: A Caregiver’s Perspective), I made an impassioned plea for HME manufacturers and suppliers to “get onboard the ‘evidence-based’ healthcare delivery train.” I also urged HME compa

WASHINGTON, DC – AAHomecare will focus on efforts to mitigate CMS’s plan to bring competitive bidding-derived rates to non-bid areas, and how providers can help. AAHomecare has been working with its allies on Capitol Hill to build support for

GOOSE CREEK, SC – Sheldon (Shelly) Prial has been to all but one Medtrade, and the 88-year-old HME legend has decided to make this year’s show his last. In Part 2 of our series (check out part one here), we start on July 2, 1950, when Shelly