LAS VEGAS – The Innovative HME Retail Product Awards, a hit at last year’s Medtrade, are back at Medtrade Spring, the March 10-12 version of the nation’s premiere HME trade show. A committee of judges will sort through the latest products to fi

FORT STEWART, GA – On his fourth tour of duty in Afghanistan, Joshua Hargis, along with members of 3rd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, walked into a nightmare. The day was Oct 6, 2013, and multiple improvised explosive devices w

STONE MOUNTAIN, GA – Friends of Disabled Adults and Children (FODAC), a non-profit organization providing more than $10 million annually in DME and supplies to the disabled community, was named a 2013 “Healthcare Champion” by the Fulton-DeKalb

Pharmacists Encouraged by Proposed Medicare Changes to 2015 Drug Plans WASHINGTON, DC – National Community Pharmacists Assocation (NCPA) CEO B. Douglas Hoey, RPh, MBA, was largely supportive of policy changes proposed by CMS for Medicare Part D

AMARILLO, TX – The DME industry is a young industry. In its present form, it has been around since the 1970s. We grew up unregulated. CMS and Congress now appear to be “making up for lost time.” The industry is feeling the effect of a confl

LAS VEGAS – Necessity may be the mother of invention, but desperation is often the father. For Bob Rutan, desperation and necessity collided in the middle of the night when he literally cut cloth from his own T-shirt to fashion a CPAP mask liner fo