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National Competitive Bidding For Manufacturers – Surprise?
From Homecare Monday So – surprise surprise – in the latest round of proposals there is one that orders an investigation possibly that manufacturers of homecare products are going to be asked to bid. Of course we have been saying for some time that the traditional supply lines between manufacturers and dealers / distributors / [...]
Kenny And His New Permobil C350 Power Wheelchair
We stumbled upon this review from The Traveling Wheelchair. In tough economic times with health care costs being assailed from governments, reimbursement agencies and insurance companies around the world one often loses sight of where some healthcare products, this one in the rehab space, are essential for daily living and quality of life. Kenny remarks, [...]
George Bush Veto Of National Competitive Bidding Overturned By Congress and The Senate
The result of this embarrassing defeat for Bush is that National Competitive Bidding is delayed for 18 – 24 months. The homecare industry will however concede 9,5% in price reductions on previously awarded NCB products. When the rollback of awarded contracts will happen has yet to be determined, as will be the numerous law suits [...]
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 [...]
(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 [...]
The New York Times Slams Congress On Medicare And National Competitive Bidding Delays -Names Industry Players
The story and the argument is not particularly new. What is somewhat new is the direct and stern criticism leveled directly at certain companies that the New York Times allege directly benefit from this delay. They name Invacare, Pride, Praxair and the Scooter Store and criticize Invacare’s Cara Bachenheimer who they allege does not want [...]
Universal Healthcare Coming Soon To the United States?
According to a recent article in Forbes this may well be the case. The argument is that as a result of highly differentiated healthcare delivery not perhaps providing the value added clinical and economic benefits – patients may have to turn to a more generic (and effective?) form of healthcare delivery. While this story is [...]
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