by Keith Kuhn | Mar 1, 2014 | Industry
Philips Respironics initiated a worldwide recall of 600 Trilogy Ventilators, models 100, 200 and 202, according to a Feb. 19 release. The voluntary recall is to address a potential defect in part of the power management board, which could cause the ventilator to fail...
by Keith Kuhn | Feb 28, 2014 | Industry
ResMed Founder Peter Farrell has been inducted into the CONNECT Entrepreneur Hall of Fame for his work in sleep and respiratory medicine, the company announced Feb. 19. In 1989, Farrell established San Diego-based ResMed to treat sleep-disordered breathing. The eighth...
by Keith Kuhn | Feb 27, 2014 | Regulations
High strength, lightweight manual wheelchairs will be the subject of a service-specific prepayment review because of their high claims payment error rate, CGS, the Jurisdiction C DME MAC, announced Feb. 18. Additional documentation required for K0004 claims may...
by Keith Kuhn | Feb 27, 2014 | Industry
NORC at the University of Chicago has been selected to lead the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS), the leading source of information and analysis of the Medicare program’s direct impact on beneficiaries. The survey will also play an essential role in...
by Keith Kuhn | Feb 26, 2014 | Government, Industry
Is the Affordable Care Act the first-step toward a single-payer health care system? “Some people think so,” Pat Geraghty, CEO of Florida Blue, told Watchdog.org. Geraghty’s guarded response came on the heels of a presentation he gave Tuesday at the Economic Club of...
