top providers

Ask most anyone at Medtrade earlier this month, and they’ll tell you there was something in the air.

The list of top 100 suppliers of DMEPOS by amount allowed for 2017 is in.

The top five looks like this:

Lincare, $539, 604, 080
Accredo Health Group, $475,577,257
Lincare Pharmacy Services, $277,122,027
Walgreen, $215,880, 876
Zoll Services, $212,308, 306

There are signs in our upcoming State of the Industry Report (keep an eye out for it in December) that the HME industry may be beginning to settle down after a few roller coaster years.

Managing Editor Theresa will attest that I’ve been trying to write a blog for a few days now. Sometimes it comes easy; sometimes it doesn’t.

A few weeks ago, I was in a CPAP frame of mind; this week, it’s vents.

First, CMS announced that non-invasive vents would be a new product category in Round 1 2017.

As users of our HME Databank very well know, we still don’t have 2011 data for Provider Share (top providers) and Product Share (product utilization), and I’m profusely sorry about this.