Tag: Durable Medical Equipment (DME)
MediStreams hosts Client Advisory Board
March 6, 2025HME News Staff
ATLANTA – MediStreams recently hosted its first-ever Client Advisory Board in Atlanta. The two-day event brought together key stakeholders, including revenue cycle leaders from health systems, ambulatory practices and DME providers, to collaborate on the future of revenue cycle management (RCM) solutions. “At MediStreams, we believe innovation starts with listening,” said John Koch, COO. “Launching our Client Advisory Board is a natural evolution of our customer-first culture...
Kansas man pleads guilty to $1B fraud scheme
February 27, 2025HME News Staff
TOPEKA, Kan. – Gregory Schreck, of Johnson County, Kan., has pleaded guilty to operating an internet-based platform named DMERx that generated false doctor orders to defraud Medicare and other federal health care benefit programs of more than $1 billion. According to court documents, Shreck and his co-conspirators targeted hundreds of thousands of Medicare beneficiaries to provide their personally identifiable information and agree to accept medically unnecessary orthotic braces, pain creams...
Maskery’s Merits: Mission-driven & responsive
January 3, 2025Liz Beaulieu, Editor
FORT MYERS, Fla. – New president Andrew Maskery says Merits USA perfectly blends his background and interests in the manufacturing and medical fields, but as a company that designs and makes wheelchairs, it also meets his desire to do good.
Prior to joining Merits USA as vice president about three years ago, Maskery helped to launch and grow two medical startups and before that he worked for nearly 18 years in aerospace manufacturing.
“It goes back to our saying, ‘Enhancing...
Physician sentenced in kickback case
October 31, 2024HME News Staff
DALLAS – Daniel R. Canchola, M.D., has been sentences to 10 years and one month in prison and ordered to pay more than $34 million in restitution for his role in a scheme to defraud Medicare by prescribing durable medical equipment and cancer genetic testing without seeing, speaking to or otherwise treating patients. According to court documents, Canchola, of Flower Mound, Texas, agreed to electronically sign doctor’s orders for DME and cancer genetic testing that he knew were used to...
William Felix on recognizing innovation, while protecting Medicare
October 18, 2024Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
YARMOUTH, Maine – Dr. William Felix has worn many hats throughout his career, including chief medical officer for Medicare DMEPOS and medical director of the Pricing, Data Analysis and Coding division at Palmetto GBA, but one constant is his passion for getting innovative technology into the hands of patients.
“The sooner the patient or the beneficiary can have their hands on this technology that can improve their quality of life, along with a healthy lifestyle, and their lives...
Wheel it Forward launches national directory
March 13, 2024HME News Staff
STAMFORD, Conn. – Wheel It Forward, a volunteer-run community library that lends out and accepts donations of DME, has launched the GotDME National Directory (www.GotDME.org). This resource aims to connect individuals in need with organizations across the country that offer free borrowing and donation options for essential DME like wheelchairs, walkers, hospital beds, rollators, knee scooters, shower safety equipment and more. "This directory fills an important gap by providing easy access...
O’Neal Medical ‘moves on’ from DME
March 8, 2024Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
PELHAM, Ala. – The business of providing durable medical equipment is rapidly becoming one of diminishing returns, says Woody O’Neal, who recently announced plans to phase out that part of his business to focus on respiratory products.
It’s a big switch for a company that once held competitive bidding contracts and had built up a “very large book of DME business,” says O’Neal, vice president of O’Neal Medical.
“The outlook for traditional...
ONeal Medical phases out DME to focus on respiratory
February 19, 2024HME News Staff
PELHAM, Ala. – ONeal Medical will stop filling durable medical equipment orders for new patients after March 31, 2024 as it focuses on home respiratory, including oxygen and sleep therapy. The provider will continue to service its existing DME patients and will accept DME orders for new patients if the order includes oxygen or sleep therapy equipment. “As a home owned and operated business, we continue to be deeply committed to our local community, and support many local charitable organizations....
Report: PE-backed companies bad for patients
November 16, 2023HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – A new report from the Private Equity Stakeholder Project and the National Disability Rights Network highlights the toll the PE business model has had on people who rely on durable medical equipment.
The report finds:
Private equity firms have increasingly bought up DME manufacturers and suppliers and consolidated them. Through aggressive debt-funded growth strategies, a handful of private equity-owned DME companies have grown from nonexistence to industry...
Parachute earns HITRUST status
March 8, 2023HME News Staff
PRINCETON, N.J. – Parachute Health has earned certified status for information security by HITRUST for its Health DME ePrescribing Platform. The HITRUST risk-based, 2-year certified status demonstrates that the Parachute Health platform has met key regulations and industry-defined requirements and is appropriately managing risk. "We are committed to prioritizing security and data protection so the industry can confidently continue to adopt this game-changing technology that helps serve patients...