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HME Business May 2017 Table of Contents Volume 24 No. 5
Financial First Aid
How and Why Providers Should Explore Wound Care Opportunities.
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Exploring Wound Care
Wound care offers an opportunity for providers to patch up their profitability. There are a variety of homecare patients that need wound care services, there are a wide number of products providers can offer, and it offers a mix of funded and retail revenue. But wound care isn’t not a slam dunk. How can providers tap into this opportunity?
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8 News/Trends/Analysis
Data Treasure Hunt
Providers might not know it, but they could be sitting on top of a claims data motherlode. Day in and day out providers are recording treasure troves of data as they process and submit claims. But not many HMEs are exploring the sorts of business intelligence that can be gleaned from that infor- mation. We explore what can be learned from claims data and how providers can dig for it.
6 Editor’s Note HME’s Giant Steps
13 People in HME CareCentrix’s Driscoll
14 Problem Solver
Fine Tuning Portable Oxygen
25 Product Profile
GlucoMe’s Diabetes Management
26 Product Solutions Therapeutic Footwear
27 HME Inventory 29 Advertiser Index &
Industry Events 30 Observation Deck
Fostering a Retail State of Mind
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Industry advocates meet with CMS’s Verma; Next round of Audit Key submissions underway; Providers sound off on CURES Act call; N.Y. incontinence rate change pushed to May; Registration still open for Washington Legislative Conference; Study: O2 patients interested in new cannula options; Bestselling author, former Navy SEAL to keynote VGM’s Heartland
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