A top priority for the complex rehab industry in the new year and new Congress will be the reintroduction of the legislation “Ensuring Access to Quality Complex Rehabilitation Act,” which strives to create a separate benefit category for complex rehab technology.
Another day, another Medicare fraud story, this one from Ohio. While it involves fraud affecting physicians, it is, as always, the medical supply fraud that caught my eye.
Let me start out by saying (writing?): The competitive bidding program, as it stands now, is a mess. No one in the industry disputes that (if there is, I haven’t heard from them).
It always catches me by surprise when I am reading an article in a mainstream magazine (in other words, pretty much anything but my de riguer copy of HME News) and I happen upon a story featuring someone I've interviewed for HME News.
There seemed to be quite a bit of healthcare-related buzz coming out of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. This gigantic and glitzy show was more about technological advancements in TVs, computers and smart phones, of course, but it also included a Digital Health Summit on Jan.
Since it's January, let's have a look at the top Mobility stories from the past year.
I guess it's no surprise that HME News readers again kept their eyes on The Scooter Store as the industry's biggest mobility provider experienced a year of flux.
This year, encouraged (dare I say, excited, even?) by Diabetes Forecast mag's annual product update, I decided to download an app, the GlucoseBuddy, so that I could log numbers and track patterns (when you have diabetes, it's all about the patterns).
