Archive: September 2024
Analysts reflect on OMI deal, market conditions
September 13, 2024Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
Owens & Minor’s acquisition: Owens & Minor (OMI) acquired Rotech Healthcare for $1.36 billion, aiming to secure large payer contracts for value-based care and a capitated risk model.
Market impact: The acquisition, along with favorable conditions like improving interest rates and demand, could stimulate further M&A activity in the HME industry.
Quipt Home Medical’s strategy: Following the OMI-Rotech deal, Quipt Home Medical is focusing on acquiring companies...
SoClean: There is now a way to regulate performance
September 13, 2024Liz Beaulieu, Editor
PETERBOROUGH, N.H. – SoClean’s Bob Wilkins says the company is trailblazing a new path for bacterial reduction devices for CPAP hoses and masks with its new clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The company announced in August that its SoClean 3+ now has de-novo clearance from the FDA for use with CPAP accessories (two hoses ResMed ClimateLine Air tubing and SlimLine tubing) and one mask (ResMed Mirage FX mask) for the ResMed AirSense 10 CPAP device.
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Avera Home Medical puts customers first
September 13, 2024Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – Avera Home Medical Equipment understands the importance of location, so much so that when the provider got feedback that customers found its location in busy downtown Sioux Falls “intimidating,” it upped sticks for a more accessible location in the city.
“A lot of our clientele felt it was difficult to get there due to traffic, or found it intimidating,” said Mitch Butler, vice president of Avera Home Medical Equipment, part of Avera@Home....
RESNA’s new president looks to next generation
September 13, 2024Liz Beaulieu, Editor
BUFFALO, N.Y. – One of Jim Lenker’s main goals in his two-year tenure as president of RESNA is to “approach, recruit and teach” younger people to the field of assistive technology.
Here’s what Lenker, PhD, OTR/L, RESNA Fellow, who is an associate professor within the Department of Rehabilitation Science at the University of Buffalo in Buffalo, N.Y., had to say about why it's important to expand the organization’s community to include early career or...
In brief: Potential new NIV coverage, new PHM CEO, new home care alliance
September 13, 2024HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – CMS is soliciting public comment on a request for reconsideration of NCD 280.1 to establish coverage policies for the use of noninvasive home mechanical ventilators and respiratory assist devices for Medicare beneficiaries with COPD.
The scope of the agency’s national coverage analysis (NCA) is limited to noninvasive positive pressure ventilation in the home for the treatment of chronic respiratory failure consequent to COPD and will focus on clinical indications...
InfuSystem, Sanara MedTech to distribute chemo-relief device
September 12, 2024HME News Staff
ROCHESTER, Mich. – InfuSystem and Sanara MedTech Inc. have executed an exclusive U.S. distribution agreement with ChemoMouthpiece, a device for the treatment of oral mucositis in chemotherapy patients. “Sanara and InfuSystem entered into our partnership to bring together our combined technical, operational and commercial strengths to deliver proprietary efficacious products to patients,” said Rich Dilorio, CEO, InfuSystem. “We believe this exclusive agreement, which builds...
CMS seeks input on NIV
September 12, 2024HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – CMS is soliciting public comment on a request for reconsideration of NCD 280.1 to establish coverage policies for the use of noninvasive home mechanical ventilators and respiratory assist devices for Medicare beneficiaries with COPD.
The scope of the agency’s national coverage analysis (NCA) is limited to noninvasive positive pressure ventilation in the home for the treatment of chronic respiratory failure consequent to COPD and will focus on clinical indications...
Owens & Minor partners with Google Cloud on inventory management system
September 11, 2024HME News Staff
RICHMOND, Va. – A new partnership combines Owens & Minor’s expertise in optimizing the health care supply chain with Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform to help drive meaningful enhancements for QSight, Owens & Minor’s cloud-based clinical inventory management system. By partnering with Google Cloud, Owens & Minor will strengthen QSight’s existing inventory management capabilities while laying the foundation for future platform and service innovations with the potential...
VGM Canada names Mogul-Rotman Woman of the Year
September 11, 2024HME News Staff
BURLINGTON, Ontario – VGM Canada named Permobil’s Brenlee Mogul-Rotman the 2024 Canadian HME Woman of the Year during a special presentation at the Canadian Seating & Mobility Conference (CSMC). Mogul-Rotman, the national clinical & technical education manager for Permobil, is an occupational therapist and ATP/SMS. “VGM Canada is proud to name Brenlee as the third Canadian HME Woman of the Year,” said Dave Davies, President, VGM Canada. “Her contributions to her community,...
Florida man pleads guilty in fraud case
September 11, 2024HME News Staff
TRENTON, N.J. – A Miami Beach, Fla., man has admitted to his role in a DME fraud scheme, pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud. According to documents filed in the case and statements made in court:
Vehovec and his conspirators solicited and received kickbacks and bribes in exchange for providing DME companies with completed doctor orders for medically unnecessary DME, such as orthotic braces.
Vehovec and his conspirators used...