Tag: Hurricane Helene
Providers on Helene’s front lines: ‘We are stretched thin but able to help’
October 4, 2024Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
A week after Hurricane Helene brought flooding and devastation across the Southeast, "it's like an atomic bomb went off," and HME providers, like impacted residents, are still assessing the damage and trying to recover, all the while taking care of patients.
The Category 4 storm, one of the worst in U.S. history, made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region Sept. 26, before sweeping wind and record-breaking rainfall across a large area that included parts of...
Dispatch from Asheville: Aeroflow Health makes sure ‘no one is left behind’
October 4, 2024Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
ASHEVILLE, N.C. – Of all the havoc wrought by Hurricane Helene, few places were more devastated than Asheville, N.C., and the surrounding areas. For Aeroflow Health, which is headquartered there, the storm brought a heavy toll, even as the provider stood up operations with an “all-hands-on-deck” approach to its employees, patients and community, says CEO Casey Hite.
“We focused on keeping things simple and doing what was right,” he said. “We are processing...
In brief: Hurricane waivers, NIV advocacy, CRT lobby
October 4, 2024HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – CMS will permit people with Medicare who have lost or had damage to their DMEPOS products because of Hurricane Helene to receive replacements of such items and services, according to a bulletin from AAHomecare.
Specifically, CMS waivers for Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee state that:
When DMEPOS is lost, destroyed, irreparably damaged, or otherwise rendered unusable, CMS is allowing DME MACs to have the flexibility to waive...
CMS implements waivers in hurricane-affected areas
October 3, 2024HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – CMS will permit people with Medicare who have lost or had damage to their DMEPOS products because of Hurricane Helene to receive replacements of such items and services, according to a bulletin from AAHomecare.
Specifically, CMS waivers for Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee state that:
When DMEPOS is lost, destroyed, irreparably damaged, or otherwise rendered unusable, CMS is allowing DME MACs to have the flexibility to waive...