Selling Assets and Transferring Patient Files – What HIPAA Requires
AMARILLO, TX – Competitive bidding is ill conceived and illogical on many different levels. In my mind, the…
December 30 2013Latest in: Billing/Reimbursement
Taking Over Oxygen Patients From a DME Supplier That Shuts its Doors
AMARILLO, TX – The DME industry is caught in the “perfect storm” of competitive bidding, stringent documentation requirements,…
December 23 2013How Non-Contract Suppliers Can Enter the Competitive Bidding Arena
AMARILLO, TX – Competitive bidding is a deeply flawed program. Until we can eliminate or modify CB, we…
December 16 2013Working With a Physician in a Rural Area: The Stark Rural Provider Exception
AMARILLO, TX – The federal Stark physician self-referral law prohibits a physician from making a referral to an…
December 9 2013Medicare Audits Deny Wheelchairs for 22 Severely Disabled Nashville Area Patients
GOODLETTSVILLE, TN – Medicare is taking back more than $200,000 it paid for complex rehabilitation wheelchairs that were…
December 9 2013Joint Ventures With Hospitals – Concrete Steps to Take
AMARILLO, TX – In light of competitive bidding, audits and recoupments, it is natural for the DME industry…
December 2 2013Waiver of Copayments – What You Can and Cannot Do
AMARILLO, TX – These are strange times. The DME industry, as we know it today, is about 30…
November 25 2013Brightree Acquires HME Software Provider MedAct
ATLANTA – Brightree LLC, a provider of cloud-based clinical, billing and business management software solutions for the post-acute…
November 25 2013Meeting Capacity Face-to-Face, WOPD, and Written Orders Prior to Claims Submission
AMARILLO, TX – This article covers four very important topics for the DME supplier: (i) whether the competitive…
November 11 2013Loan Closets, Employee Liaisons, Preferred Provider Agreements, and Other Arrangements with Referral Sources
AMARILLO, TX – The HME industry today is a totally different animal from yesterday. The industry has matured,…
October 7 2013