On The Editor's Desk

Today's lesson: If you really want to impress lawmakers, provide them with data.

So in case you didn't notice, the Databank page in the April issue of HME News featured some new data courtesy of the folks at RemitData.

These two links have lit up the NRRTS listerv for the past week:

Industry consultant Alison Cherney says “everyone wants to get into managed care” these days.

We ran a story in our NewsWire this week, "Providers commit to fighting denials but call process 'inefficient,'" that prompted a detailed and thoughtful e-mail from one of our readers.

I’m beginning to think home medical equipment providers are damned if they do, damned if they don’t.

I caught up with NCART's Don Clayback this morning. It's been a few weeks since he and other stakeholders hit the Hill to lobby for a separate benefit for complex rehab technology.

When they made those visits with lawmakers, the big question was: How much would it cost?

Picture me asking you this with one hand on my hip and a tapping foot.

The best way to sum up The Scooter Store’s decision to leave AAHomecare may be the familiar break-up phrase, it’s not you; it’s me.

It's no fun being a standard power wheelchair provider these days.