Tag: home care

  • woman wearing mask

    There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. Jane Austen In November, we here at Graham-Field, in celebration of National Home Healthcare month, honor the nurses, homecare aides, therapists, and social workers who travel to patients and their families so that they can stay where they are most comfortable – home. And as…

  • Your mother is coming home from the hospital after recovering from a fall, injury, or surgical procedure, and you expect to be able to help her out as she recovers. And yet

  • labor of love

    As we navigate the third quarter of the year, the HME industry continues to be battered by programs and policies set by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).  We’re all drowning in not just Competitive Bidding, but also in swelling numbers of audits. Unending audits continue to put a financial strain on many home medical equipment providers and…

  • homecare retail sales graham field

    As a follow-up to the earlier article, “Four Ways HME Providers Can Overcome Retail Goliaths”, here are some additional merchandising ideas to increase your retail sales. More importantly, these ideas can demonstrate to your customers that you know and understand their issues and have the right products to help them live at home. One of…

  • Serving-Hospice-Patients-Header-Graham-Field

    $15.1 BILLION. This was the approximate cost, according to the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC), for more than 1.3 million Medicare beneficiaries to receive hospice services from more than 4,000 DME providers in 2014 alone. The current growth in the number and proportion of older adults in our population is unprecedented in the history of the United…