KNOXVILLE, TN – During the holidays it’s easy get swept away in the mounting activities, gifts to buy, and need to squeeze everything we can out of our businesses before the year end with short workweeks and distracted staff. We’re doin

WASHINGTON, DC – Hundreds of meetings on Capitol Hill by AAHomecare members, thousands of emails and calls from HME advocates across the country to Congressional offices, a calendar filled with district-based meetings and site visits during rec

ATLANTA – Powered by Medtrade Radio and sponsored by Emerge Sales, HME Voice made its return last week with hosts Mike Sperduti and Kevin Gaffney, group show director, taking a look back at the year. What worked at Medtrade? What needs improvem

BROOKLYN PARK, MN – Running an award-winning regional DME is not easy, but Colleen Reisdorf, clinical services manager at Reliable Medical Supply, Brooklyn Park, Minn, always manages to make time for advocacy. As a member of AAHomecare and the Midw

AMARILLO, TX – Under the federal anti-kickback statute, DME suppliers may not “knowingly and willfully offer or pay any remuneration…to any person to induce such person…to refer” business reimbursable by a federal health care pr

AMARILLO, TX – Competitive bidding rules provide that contract suppliers may subcontract with non-contract suppliers as long as the subcontractor has not been “excluded from the Medicare program, any state health program or any other governme