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HME Business January 2018 Table of Contents
Volume 25 No. 1
Piecing Together
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2018
10 key trends that will impact providers this year.
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Annual Big 10 List
Our tenth annual look at the 10 key trends that will impact the home medical equipment industry in 2018. This install- ment includes key challenges facing providers, as well as opportunities, such as e-commerce, revenue diversi cation, and accreditation renewal. Consider it a springboard to help you start strategizing.
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8 News/Trends/Analysis
Sleep Strategies
Continuing with this issue’s strategic theme, we summa- rize the key market, care and business priorities that sleep therapy providers should consider as they make their strategic plans for this year. Sleep is growing by leaps and bounds and the opportunities and pitfalls are plentiful. Are you ready for 2018?
Push to pick up H.R. 4229 co-sponsors intensi es; CMS revs up CURES-mandated Medicaid revisions; Calif. provider meets with Rep. Denham and CMS’s Verma; Global wheelchair market to reach $6.1 billion by 2022; Azar nominated as Secretary of HHS; Philips launches campaign to build COPD awareness; 50 cystic brosis patients to receive free Af oVests; Kids Mobility Network surpasses $5 million; People in HME
6 Editor’s Note Two Big Anniversaries
12 Problem Solver Oxygen Audits: What’s New?
23 Product Solutions New Mobility Offerings
26 HME Inventory 29 Advertiser Index &
Industry Events 30 Observation Deck
Understanding DEHP Risks
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