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Respiratory

2021 HME Business Handbook: Respiratory

Optimizing Oxygen Patient Care While Maximizing Operational Efficiency

With ongoing stress on the global supply chain and logistics, it's important for HME provides to re-assess the operations and costs associated with the equipment upkeep required to care for their oxygen patients.

Accessibility

2021 HME Business Handbook: Accessibility

Providing Safe Home Access for Seniors

If you're looking to help seniors live independent lives with the help of HME, then you need to help ensure they have safe access to their homes.

Strategy

2021 HME Business Handbook: Strategy

Managing Your Employees' Continuing Education

Continuing education and training opportunities help DMEPOS providers demonstrate their commitment to clients and staff as well as governing organizations — but how do you manage it all?

Pain Management

2021 HME Business Handbook: Pain Management

Developing a Better Understanding of Cannabinoids

CBD has become a blanket descriptor for a range of chemical compounds that HME providers and DME pharmacies should more closely comprehend in order to help their clients.

Accreditation

2021 HME Business Handbook: Accreditation

Doublechecking Your Processes to Avoid the Top 10 Survey Deficiencies

When a site surveyor finds an accreditation deficiency, it's not the end, but rather a means to the end of improving your HME business's quality. Here are 10 deficiencies to keep in mind.

Strategy

2021 HME Business Handbook: Strategy

Examining Your Delivery Costs to Increase Productivity

Implementing modern technologies will help turn your business into a leaner, more efficient delivery machine with lower fleet, fuel, and personnel expenses.

Strategy

2021 HME Business Handbook: Strategy

Saving Space, Time, and Money by Partnering with a Distributor

HME sees seismic shift after seismic shift of market changes, but you can still control how you manage your business. Your purchasing strategy should be a top-of-the-list item when it comes to your management priorities.

Strategy

2021 HME Business Handbook: Strategy

Harnessing Data to Navigate the Post-PHE and Grow Market Share

The market data solutions now available are light years beyond what we once had. How so, and how does an HME sales organization maximize its effectiveness with them?

Sleep Therapy

2021 HME Business Handbook: Sleep Therapy

Improving PAP Compliance with New Innovations

With 46% to 83% of OSA patients not complying with therapy, how can providers use new innovations to pinpoint and address the factors undermining their adherence?

Respiratory

2021 HME Business Handbook: Respiratory

Leveraging Infection Control in a Postpandemic World

You are already taking the necessary steps to create a safe environment for your customers — marketing the steps you have taken will allow you to stand out from your competitors.



Pain Management

2021 HME Business Handbook: Pain Management

Ramping Up Your CBD Product Knowledge to Address Patient Needs

It's critical for providers that are offering CBD to understand how it works and how it benefits different types of clients.

Accreditation

2021 HME Handbook: Accreditation

Using Accreditation to Sell Your Business

Prospective buyers will evaluate your operations, and if your HME business is accredited, then you will have the resources to make the process much easier.

Strategy

2021 HME Business Handbook: Strategy

How Outsourcing Has Dominated the HME Billing Market In 2021

What economic factors related to billing are eating up your revenue, and how do you act to take back control of your bottom line?

Podcast

The Rise of the Value-Based HME

As the industry rounds the bend out of COVID, HME providers can expect more patient demand and a broader set of needs from their clients and referral partners. Are they ready?

News Feature

Industry Continues to Face Supply-Side Frustrations

Narrowed supply chains are still bottlenecking product availability for providers as well as pushing prices higher. How is the industry responding?

Podcast

Leveraging Policies and Procedures Lessons

COVID-19 taught providers a lot in terms of infection control, telehealth and other aspects of their businesses. What lessons will stick around for the long haul and what things should they have been doing all along?

Podcast

Telehealth Evals for Complex Rehab: What's Involved?

CMS relaxed telehealth regulations for CRT, but what are the technology tools available and how do providers implement it? Moreover, shouldn’t it be a regular part of the way care and business are conducted?

The Return of Medicare Claims Audits

Several months ago CMS threatened it would resume its claims audits. Now that is happening and audit expert Wayne van Halem provides the details on what’s happening and what providers need to know.

David Kopf

Editor's Note

Turning the Corner on COVID-19

We all want to get back to normal, but can we? What if we can make something better?

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Wound Care

The Wound Care On-Ramp

Wound care expert Heather Trumm, BSN, RN, CWON, discusses how HME providers can find a path into a service category that covers nearly all the patient groups they serve.

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