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Billing Data Accessibility: Why It Matters for DME Providers (And What to Look For)
What is billing data accessibility for DME providers? Billing data accessibility is how quickly and easily your revenue cycle team can retrieve, filter, and act on claim data, without switching between systems, waiting on reports, or requesting IT help. For DME...
Why Data Processing Integrity Should be the Standard in Billing
In DME billing, security is non-negotiable. But a system can be completely secure and still process your data incorrectly — and in billing, incorrect data has a direct cost. Misstated receivables. Payment posting errors. Inaccurate financial reporting. Audit exposure....
How TrueSight’s Inovalon Integration Ends the DME Insurance-Change Denial Cycle
How do DME providers prevent claim denials caused by patient insurance changes? The provider usually finds out about a coverage change through a denied claim — often weeks after it was submitted. Because DME involves long-term rentals billed monthly (sometimes for...
TrueSight is SOC 2 Certified: What That Means for DME Providers
DME providers handle sensitive data on every single claim: patient demographics, physician documentation, insurance information, and Protected Health Information (PHI). At the same time, reimbursement rules under CMS are constantly shifting, which means the accuracy...
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...