Tag: Patient compliance
AAH to payers: Temporarily relax CPAP requirements
May 31, 2022HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – AAHomecare has developed a letter that providers can send to payers explaining the CPAP device shortage and asking them to temporarily relax compliance requirements. In the wake of supply chain challenges related to semiconductor chips, manufacturers have released products that don’t have wireless cell modem data tracking technology for recording patient compliance data. The letter asks payers to remove, for a limited period of time, any policy requiring patient compliance...
AdvaCare adds a Personal Touch
October 25, 2013Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
BRIDGEVILLE, Pa. - AdvaCare Home Services is taking a new approach to patient care—one that Tammy Zelenko hopes will get patients more involved.Under a new patient monitoring program called Personal Touch, offered by a company called HealthCall, AdvaCare will provide personalized and comprehensive follow-up with COPD patients.“The patient will receive (our typical) hands-on care with our respiratory therapists going into the home and doing evaluations and assessments,” said Zelenko,...