- By Joseph Duffy
- Feb 01, 2012
Web-based version of smart phone app helps patients, providers determine remaining supply.
- By David Kopf
- Jan 26, 2012
The challenges facing oxygen providers in 2012 are the result of public policies that were developed several years ago. The impact of these challenges, and how providers continue to redefine their businesses to not only survive them, but thrive despite them is a story that continues to unfold in 2012.
- By David Kopf
- Jan 01, 2012
New logo reflects business transformation.
- By Joseph Duffy
- Oct 18, 2011
Kocinski will expand presence in respiratory category.
- By Joseph Duffy
- Oct 18, 2011
The move aims to expand Drive’s presence in the respiratory for homecare, as well as long-term, hospital and emergency care markets.
- By David Kopf
- Oct 13, 2011
If Round Two wasn’t on respiratory providers’ radar, it probably is now, making it a good time to look at the recent past to peer into the near future.
- By Joseph Duffy
- Oct 01, 2011
To HME providers and the industry as a whole, disease management has become a casualty of cuts, caps and competitive bidding.
- By Joseph Duffy
- Oct 01, 2011
They say that change can be good, but not when it comes to the oxygen services market. Years of major upheavals stacked on top of each other have added up to a heavy burden indeed for respiratory providers. Yet, somehow they have managed to survive and reinvent themselves. Can they do the same in Rounds One and Two of competitive bidding?
- By David Kopf
- Aug 01, 2011
Dallas Emmons will work on various projects out of the company's N.J. center.
- By David Kopf
- Jul 28, 2011
Providers can sound off on heat wave's effect on patients, use of RTs, bidding repeal's price tag.
- By David Kopf
- Jul 28, 2011
With the rental cap, audits and competitive bidding, providers need to closely examine their businesses to bolster margins.
- By Joseph Duffy
- Jul 01, 2011
As POCs have gained acceptance and usage — sometimes as a primary oxygen device — the need to ensure patients truly understand their devices is essential.
- By David Kopf
- Jul 01, 2011
OCDs are not solutions for every patient. And no one device fits the needs of all patients; therefore, it can take diligent evaluation to meet individual patients needs. We take a look at some of the latest products.
- By Joseph Duffy
- Jun 01, 2011
RSM’s 2011 annual oxygen market analysis shows providers in a holding pattern.
- By Joseph Duffy
- Jun 01, 2011
Change expected to be positive for most suppliers.
- By Joseph Duffy
- May 19, 2011
Today, nearly every modern portable oxygen device incorporates an oxygen conserving technology. OCDs are routinely used with ambulatory LTOT patients to a level that is arguably the standard of care in the United States.
- By Joseph Lewarski
- May 01, 2011
Profiles of how three oxygen providers transitioned to low/no delivery.
- By Joseph Duffy
- Apr 01, 2011
A second report pushes for additional cuts to oxygen reimbursement rates for Medicare.
- By David Kopf
- Mar 03, 2011
AAHomecare slams GAO report ‘flawed,’ plans congressional rebuttal.
- By David Kopf
- Feb 17, 2011