AMARILLO, TX – CMS requires Medicare health care providers and suppliers to provide Medicare beneficiaries with an Advance Beneficiary Notice of Noncoverage (ABN), Form CMS-R-131, if the provider thinks Medicare probably (or certainly) will not

WATERLOO, IOWA – The recently concluded Heartland Conference in Waterloo, Iowa, brought a healthy dose of wit, wisdom, and inspiration to the industry, with more than 900 people making their way to the hawkeye state last week. “While attendance w

ATLANTA – Registration for Medtrade is officially open. Early rates are considerably lower, and in effect until mid September. The nation’s premiere HME trade show is scheduled for Oct 20-23, 2014, at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta.

ORLANDO, FL – The so-called “retail movement” has always been a part of the HME world, but the urgency is higher due to endless price pressures on Medicare via the competitive bidding program. Essential Medical Supply (Booth #1355) has show

AMARILLO, TX – The DME industry, in its present form, has been around since the 1970s. For the first 25 to 30 years of its existence, the industry was relatively unregulated and was relatively simple. A DME supplier would easily and quickly obt

MINNEAPOLIS – A new study presented at SLEEP 2014 by Philips Respironics (Booth #1711 at Medtrade, scheduled for Oct 20-23, 2014) concluded that patients using the SleepMapper mobile app and web-based ­solution achieved a 22% higher po