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How the 2026 Fee Schedule Changes Affect Your Bottom Line
When Medicare adjusted its DMEPOS (Durable Medical Equipment, Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Supplies) fee schedule on January 1, 2026, the reimbursement bump ranged from as low as 1.35% to as high as 2.8%, depending on what you supply and where your patients live. And...
How to Improve Cash Flow and Reduce Risk in Complex Rehab and O&P Reimbursement
Complex Rehab Technology (CRT) and Orthotics & Prosthetics (O&P) reimbursement is not the same as traditional DME billing. These are high-dollar, high-risk claims. A single order can exceed $10,000 to $100,000. Documentation is layered and payer-specific....
CMS Moves DME Accreditation to an Annual Cycle: What Providers Should Do Now
CMS is changing how DMEPOS accreditation works. Under a new ruling, DME suppliers will move from a three-year accreditation cycle to annual accreditation with tighter compliance standards. For providers, this shifts accreditation from a periodic event to an...
How 15-Day Continuous Glucose Monitoring Impacts DMEs
Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) is an essential part of life for people with diabetes. DME providers play a key role in ensuring they have access to the devices necessary to do it.With newer CGM systems now cleared for up to 15 days of wear, understanding the...
Competitive Bidding Is Coming Back: What Providers Need to Know Now
After multiple rounds, contract expirations, and years of pauses and adjustments, it’s been unclear whether (or when) Medicare’s DMEPOS Competitive Bidding Program would return. But now, we have more clarity—and more importantly, a timeline.CMS has formally outlined...
How DME Providers Can Get Ahead this Deductible Season
January through March can feel like a financial pressure test for many providers. It’s when patient-pay balances surge, deductibles reset, and the cracks in intake, billing, and payment follow-up get exposed.But here’s the truth: Those cracks usually begin months...
Insurance Changes Are Inevitable; Here’s How to Get Ahead of Them
Changes in a patient’s health insurance can disrupt billing and care continuity. Unlike other areas of healthcare, durable medical equipment often involves long-term rentals, sometimes lasting a year or more. That means the insurance landscape you started a claim...
From Clinician to Owner: How Dwayne Weitzel Saved a DME Business in Debt
The DME industry has changed a lot over the last decade (a huge understatement if you’re talking to providers who’ve experienced it).Between reimbursement pressure, competitive bidding, rising equipment costs, and increasingly complex documentation requirements, many...
Automation is Forging The Path to Faster Insurance Verification and Intake Review
Insurance verification has long been one of the most time-consuming parts of the DME claim process. Each new patient or order typically requires 10 to 60 minutes of staff time to verify eligibility and complete the rest of the intake process, and that’s assuming all...
Open APIs: The Key to Fast, Flexible DME Integrations
DME providers shouldn’t have to settle for software that limits their workflow or forces them into specific partner ecosystems. Yet that’s the reality for many billing platforms today—integrations are slow, expensive, and dependent on someone else’s development...
Should You Be Auditing Your Own Patient Communication Records?
Good documentation is the backbone of a successful DME operation. It protects your revenue, supports compliance and ultimately improves patient outcomes. Many providers assume their contact logs are enough until they face a denial. Suddenly, those records are...
Throughput: A Better Way to Measure and Manage Order Movement in DME Billing
DME billing managers: Are your claims languishing? Are reimbursements lagging? If so, you need to take a look at your operation’s throughput. Throughput reveals how efficiently and effectively orders move from intake to payment, and where they’re getting stuck, sort...