Archive | March, 2007

National Competitive Bidding Homecare United States

by admin on March 26, 2007 in All, Editorial, Healthcare Marketing, Home Healthcare

Its official – CMS (Medicare – Medicaid) have gone public with a website to provide further information on National Competitive Bidding (NCB). This is yet another indication that NCB is coming sooner rather than later. Of particular interest is this statement “CMS has not set a deadline for DMEPOS suppliers to become accredited in order [...]

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Invacare, Meyra and Handicare Skip Rehacare

by admin on March 22, 2007 in All, China Manufacturing, Editorial, Healthcare Marketing, Home Healthcare

As a brief follow – up to the post on this subject this week, we can now confirm that Invacare, Meyra and Handicare will not be attending this years Rehacare. This is the first time in the history of this show that Invacare and Meyra have not attended. No doubt the empty space will be [...]

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Homecare Industry Relooks at Medtrade and Rehacare

by Frank Barlin on March 20, 2007 in All, Editorial, Healthcare Marketing, Home Healthcare

Following shortly on the heels of Sunrise CEO Mike Hammes statement that Sunrise was focusing resources elsewhere in terms of the traditional Medtrade “Spring” show, significant rumor abounds in Europe this week that some “big” companies are seriously considering their options to exhibit at Rehacare – traditionally the largest rehab exhibition outside of the US. [...]

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Permobil, TiLite and Roho In New Customer Focus Initiative

by admin on March 19, 2007 in All, Healthcare Marketing, Home Healthcare

Three great end user customer driven companies have now formed an alliance (First Alliance) to better serve customers and to make sure they stay focused on end user needs in time of reimbursement cuts and a scramble by the industry in general to focus most of their activities on operational efficiency. Both are clearly needed, [...]

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Invacare Appoints Former NATO Commander To Its Board Of Directors

by Frank Barlin on March 4, 2007 in All, Editorial, Home Healthcare, Investors

Invacare, struggling, like several of its competitors with reimbursement, Asian sourcing pressure and cost issues has just announced that it has appointed General James L. Jones, United States Marine Corps (ret.) to its board. General Jones has recently retired as Supreme Allied Commander of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) and Commander of the United States [...]

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