Archive | July, 2008

Innovation At Respironics – Direct Consumer Shipping

New consumer company parent Phillips will no doubt be pleased with the recently announced direct ship to consumer program that Respironics has instituted in the United States for several of it’s obstructive sleep apnea consumables. Full details are available from their sleepapnea site which lists their business provider services. The service provides suppliers the opportunity [...]

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Resmed – First Linde Then CNBC And Jim Cramer

You will recall two days ago the market noise that Resmed was about to be picked up by German Linde. We blogged about it here. Now CNBC’s Jim Cramer talked about them benefiting from the potential reversal or low impact of competitive bidding. (I don’t think competitive bidding will be substantially reversed just to be [...]

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(Happy?) Birthday National Competitive Bidding – Medicare – Homecare

The program officially started today, with all the competing and conflicting flavors of a bitter sweet chocolate. Despite a last minute lobbying effort – and one missing vote, at least 3 failed lawsuits – the program started. “Industry” is saying that there is still a chance it will be reversed (temporarily) however that’s a long [...]

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