Tag: Home medical supplies
Medline inks new partnership agreement
December 19, 2024HME News Staff
NORTHFIELD Ill. – Medline has signed a new prime vendor agreement with Louisiana-based Central Management Company, which oversees skilled nursing homes, home care agencies and rehabilitation services. Medline will serve as the primary supplier for Central Management Company’s 22 skilled nursing facilities and home health agencies across Louisiana. “This partnership between Medline and Central Management Company represents a shared vision to enhance care quality and operational efficiency...
Henry Schein expands supplies platform with Acentus
November 20, 2024HME News Staff
MELVILLE, N.Y. - Henry Schein has signed an agreement to buy Tampa, Fla.-based Acentus, a national supplier specializing in delivering continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) with $35 million in annual revenue.
Along with its previous acquisitions of Prism Medical Products in 2021 and Shield Healthcare and Mini Pharmacy in 2023, Henry Schein now expects its home medical supply platform to have annual revenue of about $350 million.
“As the delivery of health care in the U.S. is...
Aeroflow, United Way coordinate thousands of boxes of supplies
October 28, 2024HME News Staff
ASHEVILLE, N.C. – Aeroflow Health has partnered with United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County, among other organizations, to provide immediate relief and supplies following the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. Aeroflow Health and United Way quickly collaborated to open a warehouse donation site just days after historic flooding in Western North Carolina devastated the area. In just 15 days, there were more than 700 volunteer responses and more than 2,600 boxes of essential supplies, such as...
Cardinal Health opens new at-Home Solutions distribution center
August 28, 2024HME News Staff
DUBLIN, Ohio – Cardinal Health has opened a new 350,000-square-foot distribution center in Greenville, S.C., dedicated to its at-Home Solutions business.
It is the largest distribution center supporting at-Home Solutions to date and only the second center the business has built from the ground up.
“There’s tremendous growth opportunity as health care continues to shift to the home,” said Rob Schlissberg, president, Cardinal Health at-Home Solutions....
In brief: Senators push oxygen template, DME MACs publish supplies guidance
February 9, 2024HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – Sens. Bill Cassidy, R-La., and Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., urge CMS to adopt a standardized template instead of a medical record review to ensure access to supplemental oxygen for patients.
In a letter to CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, the senators state:
“We ask that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) remove barriers for patient access to supplemental oxygen by establishing clear requirements for determining the medical necessity...
Home Care Delivered ready for ‘bigger, better, faster’
October 20, 2023Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
RICHMOND, Va. – Home Care Delivered’s recent acquisition of Medline’s DMEPOS supplier business unit will boost the provider’s geographic and payer profile, says CEO Gordy Fox.
The two companies already had a long-running relationship, so when Medline approached HCD about buying the business unit, it made sense, says Fox.
“Medline’s DMEPOS supplier business unit really focuses on incontinence, urological, ostomy and wound care, so it was directly...
Patient Access: Consider taking active role
May 9, 2023Kathryn Vaughn
Q. What is market access and what is the value to me?
A. Pharma and biotech have long recognized the value of investing in market access to enable consumer access to therapies. As of recent, HME manufacturers have begun to invest in internal teams to address coverage and reimbursement restrictions with an overall goal of improving access for end-users. The work may take the form of advocacy on the federal level with CMS or with individual state Medicaid programs to improve coverage or reimbursement...
Surveys seek to fight ‘commoditization’ of industry
April 7, 2023Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
WASHINGTON – So many payers don’t understand the day-to-day realities of providing medical supplies that it’s up to the HME industry to tell its story and ensure end users don’t lose access, say stakeholders.
AAHomecare in March launched two nationwide surveys – enteral (enteral nutrition, pumps, kits, and/or supplies) and supplies (wound care, ostomy, and/or urological supplies) – to gather information on the rising costs that providers face.
“If...
McKesson secures federal contract
March 22, 2023HME News Staff
RICHMOND, Va. – McKesson Medical-Surgical Government Solutions has been awarded a five-year contract by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for medical equipment and supplies.
The contract, used by the VA and other federal agencies, affords greater access to McKesson brand supplies, including respiratory accessories, disposable surgical instruments, hospital clothing, exam tables, adhesive bandages and hundreds of other products.
“Securing this contract represents...
Cardinal Health to install Swisslog Automation Solution
March 16, 2023HME News Staff
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – Cardinal Health will install a Swisslog Automation Solution within its new at-Home Solutions distribution center in Grove City, Ohio. The facility is part of the at-Home Solutions business' multi-year strategy to increase warehouse capacity to accommodate its rapid growth. The AutoStore solution, empowered by Swisslog, has 31,844 storage bins providing 83,000 cubic feet of storage for 14,154 SKUs. The solution operates on synchronized intelligence from Swisslog's...