Sleep Manufacturers Alliance Launches Web Site
The Sleep Manufacturers Alliance has announced the launch of its new Web site, www.sleepalliance.org.
The site includes easily accessible information about the Alliance's purpose, members, goals, actions planned, actions taken, and links to resources, documents, regulations of interest, press releases and educational content. The site's home page also includes a section titled Sleep Facts that highlights interesting facts related to sleep-disordered breathing, its diagnosis and treatment. While visiting the site, there is an opportunity to contact the Alliance and its members and for other manufacturers to join the Alliance.
Educational content includes the recently released SMA resource, Competitive Bidding: A Guide for Providers. The guide is a 12-page resource designed to help suppliers better understand the impact of competitive bidding on their respective businesses and the sleep-disordered breathing market.
The Documents section of the site offers the four needed forms and instructions for suppliers to file their application to participate in competitive bidding (Medicare DME Competitive Bidding Application) with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
Members of the Alliance include Embla, Fisher & Paykel Healthcare, Invacare, Pro-Tech, Puritan Bennett, ResMed, Respironics, Sunrise Medical and Viasys Healthcare.
The Alliance was created to be the one-voice advocate, among many sleep products manufacturers, on issues related to sleep-disordered breathing. As such, the Alliance can positively impact current and future issues that are critically important to the field of sleep-disordered breathing.
This article originally appeared in the January 2007 issue of HME Business.