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U.S. Rehab will host Tech Training in Salt Lake City, UT!

U.S. Rehab’s Tech Training is a one-stop shop that helps your technicians meet CMS DMEPOS Quality Standards. These sessions provide valuable training and hands-on practice with a variety of vendor partner equipment, including Permobil, Sunrise, Merits/Avid, Motion Concepts, Ki Mobility, and MK Battery. Two tailored education tracks are available to best accommodate each of your technician’s current experience in the industry.

WATERLOO, Iowa – Registration for VGM’s 22nd anniversary Heartland Conference is now open. The educational event will be held in person June 12-14 in Waterloo, Iowa.

Special Early Bird pricing is available to those who register prior to April 14. Passes are all-inclusive and provide access to every educational opportunity Heartland has to offer, including three pre-conference sessions. This year’s passes also cover meals, entertainment, and access to the hottest products and business solutions offered by VGM's vast network of vendors inside a newly renovated exhibit hall.

With the holidays almost upon us, there was one last major vote in the 117th Congress before sine die. Today, they voted on a $1.645 trillion Omnibus package that included some language for the DMEPOS industry. Now that it has passed it is off to the President for a signature. There will need to be a continuing resolution in effect until Dec. 30th to allow the time needed to get the final bill signed by the President.

In it, they passed the following: 

It’s savings time! Register for Medtrade by December 16 to score best-in-class SmartSaver rates!

Only Medtrade pulls together expert-led educational sessions, the latest products and services from some of the best-known companies in our industry, and provides the most-valued networking and relationship building-opportunities available to the HME community.

The time between November and the new year is called the “lame-duck session” due to some legislators finishing up their term after losing in the recent elections. That doesn’t mean that the process of legislating stops, as two fiscal issues are likely to be a major focus during the last weeks of the 117th Congress: getting an omnibus spending bill done, and deciding whether or not to deal with the debt limit. Typically, during the lame-duck session, legislators are free to make decisions that exercise the standard powers with little fear of consequence. Simply put, they are more apt to sign on to bills.

Leadership is one of those words that feels like it should be easy to accomplish. As you undoubtedly know already, it is anything but. People define leadership in different ways. Each leader has their own style, and employees require different types of leadership depending on their work style. So truthfully, great—or even good—leadership is a complex, everchanging venture.

Act Today! It is important that you reach out to your member of your congress in support of H.R.6641 - DMEPOS Relief Act of 2022 to be included in an end-of-year package.

Home medical equipment (HME) suppliers need help. They are being affected by supply chain disruptions, shipping costs, staffing issues, and poor reimbursement rates. Providers have been stuck with Rates established under the flawed Competitive Bidding System (CBP) back in 2015

With Hurricane Ian recently hitting the Southeast United States, many providers are left with the same question. Can they be reimbursed for lost/destroyed equipment after the disaster?

Emily Harken, Director, VGM Government Relations, recently answered this question in HME News. The full Smart Talk article can be read here.

Can your business continue to weather the global PAP shortage, and if so, for how long? Are you losing referrals to other providers that can source PAP devices? Now is the time to take advantage of an emerging market: home ventilation. You don’t want to miss the buck on this opportunity.

Integra Partners is expanding its support for the HME community as the latest company to join AAHomecare at the Diamond Corporate Partner level, as well as through an investment in in the industry-led DMEscripts e-prescribing platform.