OxyGo is proud to announce the launch of their latest product, the OxyHome 5L Stationary Concentrator....

Applied Home Healthcare Equipment, along-trustedresource for oxygen filling, technical and regulatorysupportfor DME and HME providers,has announced th...

Westlake, OH – August 18, 2021 – Applied Home Healthcare Equipment, a long-trusted resource for oxygen filling, technical and regulatory support for D...

OxyGoLLC, a leader in lightweight portable oxygen concentrators,has acquiredLIFECorporation,a manufacturer of medical devices that specializes in port...

OxyGo, a company noted for providing high quality home healthcare oxygen products, announced that it will host its second annualOxygen EXPO2. The EXPO...

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Portable oxygen concentrators, or POCs, are lightweight medical devices that dispense oxygen while being highly portable.  They allow those prescribed...

DMEs from Oklahoma, Texas, Florida and across the country attended Oxygen EXPO2 in Orlando, FL on Jan 21st of this year.  The expo, subtitled The NEXT...

Orlando, FL – (December 13, 2019) – OxyGo, a company noted for providing high quality home healthcare oxygen products, announced that it will host its...

  Traveling with OxyGo NEXT is straightforward and simple.  One reason is it so easy to travel with is because it meets all the Federal Aviation Admi...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 14, 2019 Orlando, FL: OxyGo LLC, a leader in the portable oxygen concentrator market celebrated their 5th anniversary...

                      The true death toll of home oxygen fires across the United States is likely to be higher than previous estimates by t...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 12, 2019 Orlando, FL: OxyGo LLC, a leader in the portable oxygen concentrator market announced the launch of their new ...

                      June 15, 2019 – By Cara C. Bachenheimer for HomeCare Magazine With the Medicare Durable Medical Equipment, Prostheti...

                        June 8, 2019 – By Dave Marquard, WEMCO Tech Chair Curiosity has often driven me to action.  In 1982 I purchased o...

                          FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 19, 2019 Orlando, FL: OxyGo LLC, a leader in the portable oxygen concentrator ...

OxyGo® is known for its amazing customer service, sales and marketing support. And its brand, Applied Home Healthcare Equipment, has long been trusted...

You may have heard of The Centipede’s Dilemma: A centipede was happy – quite! Until a toad in fun Said, “Pray, which leg moves after which?” This rai...

                      “Beam me up, Scotty” You are probably familiar with this iconic catchphrase that made its way into the popular cul...

An acquaintance recently asked me how providers of home healthcare equipment might define what I like to think of as “The OxyGo Difference.”  Id love ...

There were lots of products to be seen and deals to be made at the recent Las Vegas Medtrade Show that ran March 27-29 at the Mandalay Bay Convention ...

                      President Trump’s new tax law went into effect this year, boosting take home pay for about 90% of Americans. The amou...

                      For more years than I wish to count, CMS has been busy—working hard to decrease their funding of DME products. The re...

                      In July, 2017, American Association For Homecare published a vivid report that brought into focus the DME decline pla...

                      ABSOLUTELY! Thousands of patients love the OxyGo® family of Portable Oxygen Concentrators, and so will yours. With th...

                      Forget, for a moment, the problems caused by Competitive Bidding and shrinking government reimbursements. Think, inst...

                      It comes to the Las Vegas Mandalay Bay Convention Center March 27-29. It’s the second largest trade show in the U.S. ...

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It is no secret that strong, reliable referral sources are crucial to any providers business. An effective, high-caliber network will give any HME the...

                      I was listening to some “oldies but goodies” on the radio recently and lyrics from Roy Orbison’s “Only the Lonely” (1...

                      It’s no surprise that having and achieving business goals are critical for any kind of success. Goals are necessary t...

                      I was intrigued by an article I read recently in Cristaux, a design manufacturing company with a global vision that ...

                      In 2005 I was given the responsibility of starting a new homecare company from scratch for the Cleveland Clinic. It w...

                      It’s no secret that most home healthcare providers spend an inordinate amount time engaging various payors on behalf ...

                      Have you considered building special promotions that relate to national healthcare days and months? …  WHY NOT? Oppo...

                      Before I started my own business I was a cop in the Cleveland, Ohio area. Police officers are trained to deal with ho...

                Technology continues to transform every industry—and home healthcare is no exception. As new medical tech trends continue to ...

                      Many of us have enjoyed opportunities to visit Florida and other sunny destinations. Usually it’s a fun trip to soak ...

                      The late great St. Louis Cardinal’s Hall-of-Fame pitcher Dizzy Dean once reportedly said: “It ain’t braggin’ if ya’ c...

                      Say hello to Robert “Bob” Gunner, one of the most dedicated exercise fanatics in Sugarland, Texas. Bob, an OxyGo® sal...

                      The Home Oxygen Company (HOC), with offices in Modesto and Sacramento, California, is all about doing what it takes t...

                        “Be careful what you wish for, it might just come true.” … We’ve all heard that warning from time to time. With th...

                      Some classified ads are better than others. Here is one of the best—an extremely well written classified ad for a DM...

                      On September 10th the eye of Hurricane Irma crossed over Cudjoe Key, not far from Key West, FL and about 70 miles sou...

                      Good customer service is the most important value your company can provide to your customers. In a typical transactio...

                      The late great Alabama football coach Bear Bryant once made an observation always worth remembering: “It doesn’t cost...

                      Have you ever wondered what it might be like to be a venture capitalist and make the call on whether or not to invest...

                      Just because a patient is on oxygen doesn’t mean that they are stuck at home and cannot travel. On the contrary, toda...

                      The POCs you sell or rent to oxygen patients today allow greater freedom than ever before for travel and independence...

                      Do you have patients who were impacted by either Hurricane Harvey or Hurricane Irma? Or were you directly impacted as...

TV spots, radio, direct mail, paid search and social media are just some measurable ways to effectively reach new customers. Set a budget and test dif...

                      CAUTION! Personal obsolescence in a leader/manager can manifest itself in organizational under-performance, less than...

                      As this issue of Home HealthCare TODAY went to press, the Food and Drug Administration called for comments on its fir...

                        A new craze has been sweeping the country: rock painting! It’s being hailed as a new way of spreading happiness ...

                      In a world where everything keeps getting more expensive, and portable concentrators seem to the be the next big thin...

                      Jim Harbaugh, the football coach at my alma mater, the University of Michigan, has a favorite saying: “Attack eac...

                      Once you arrive at Medtrade Fall 2017 in Atlanta… how do you make your time really count? As you take in the show and...

                      There is Texas ‘BIG’. And then there is Prairie Medical of Meridian, Idaho, ‘BIG’. The territory this highly special...

                      Situated in Wickenburg, AZ, about 25-miles from Sun City, AZ, Discount Medical Equipment LLC caters to a well establi...

                      Sometimes what looks easy is quite complex. Take, for example, the Healthcare Insurance and Portability and Accountab...

                      Every company has a reason to explain its existence and survival in a challenging and harsh business environment. Thi...

                      The FIME 2017 Show (Florida International Medical Expo), which bills itself as “The Largest Medical Trade Fair Across...

                      More and more homecare companies are purchasing portable concentrators because they recognize the need to decrease th...

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                      Being Manager of Respiratory Therapy for the Cleveland Clinic was one of the most rewarding experiences of my life. W...

                      Once upon a time, in a kingdom far away from audits and competitive bidding, there lived a king and his beautiful dau...

Westlake Mayor Dennis M. Clough issued a proclamation marking it as “OxyGo Day” in the city of Westlake. The proclamation noted how the company’s conc...

As review sites have proliferated, a new industry has been spawned: reputation management and review alert firms that keep companies appraised about w...

Lets Patients Compare Home Health Agencies Consumers are being given the opportunity to be smarter and wiser in their selection of home health agenci...

10 proven tech tips for every home healthcare DME Benjamin Franklin was addressing fire prevention, not healthcare, when he coined the famous axiom “...

The future is now for DME’s keeping up with the latest advances in healthcare technology, especially in the area of telehealth. The big elephant in th...

Jason Flanigan, OxyGo’s® General Manager, has seen the future and it is loaded with high profit potential for DME’s and HME’s that ride the wave of ch...

If you are like me, keeping track and making sense of all the zeroes in the millions, billions and trillions of dollars spent on U.S. healthcare is da...

Big surprises often come in small packages that can make a huge difference in a person’s life. Read one patient’s personal story… For Cathy Work, a h...

Newest healthcare data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census Bureau show continued growth in the size, scope and cost of the U.S. healthcare ...

“I think what’s NOT here from an exhibitor standpoint is almost as noticeable as what is on display here…” said one veteran attendee traversing the ...

A DME supplier can no longer survive while being dependent on Medicare for fee-for-service… with competitive bidding, stringent documentation requirem...

The great early twentieth century sports and short story writer Damon Runyon wrote many memorable lines, perhaps none so famous as his observation tha...

Recently CMS announced another round of oxygen reimbursement cuts. To combat this new decrease, you need to not only reduce your costs, but win more p...

This past May, I wrote a column called “Keeping Concentrators New Car Smell Fresh”. It referenced how to deal with foul smelling rental equipment bein...

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Oxygen is very safe to have in the home when the following guidelines are followed. Are the following 16 tips included in your oxygen safety training ...

Every industry has a shorthand code for its prominent and frequently referenced terminology. Healthcare is no exception. In fact, for the outsider, th...

Missy Cross is a veteran in Ohio’s homecare industry who is paying close attention to recent CMS oxygen reimbursement cuts that can be as high as 16 p...

In the aviation business there is an old saying that there are only two types of pilots: old pilots and bold pilots, but there are no old bold pilots....

Pour on sales with OxyGo® POCs and their new super light model, the OxyGo FIT™. New 30-seccod, 60-second and 120-second OxyGo and OxyGo FIT commercia...

How many texts do you receive in a day? … Emails? … How many websites do you read each day? … What about social media? Twitter? Facebook? With techno...

With the start of a new year, it’s time to follow through on resolutions that every DME-focused business should seriously consider. Here’s a list of o...

Marc Gordon created Newtec Medical Equipment LLC, Toms River, NJ, with the intent of bringing affordable new technology home respiratory equipment to ...

At Medtrade Fall 2016, the OxyGo® booth was a very busy place to be. There was considerable buzz and excitement surrounding the introduction of OxyGo’...

A Paradigm Shift Worth Noting Bigger is NOT better when it comes to most home healthcare products. Medical device miniaturization is one of the cutti...

                      Here’s the Atlanta Medtrade show in a nutshell: “The show is dwindling. Fewer exhibitors, and fewer attendees—but o...

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has made it official… Healthcare employment is leading the nation in fast paced growth. Statistics available to H...

Winter is a particularly challenging time for healthcare workers. This is true because healthcare workers often find themselves interacting with sick ...

If you received a letter from the FDA, and it said the following, would you know what it meant? “Written procedures are not established for evaluati...

Medtrade’s annual fall show concluded in Atlanta (October 31 – November 3) with new products galore on display and over 90 educational sessions. Atten...

I feel fortunate to have attended the recently concluded fall 2016 Medtrade show in Atlanta. It reminds me that the more things change, the more they ...

As we begin this new year, I am willing to make a bet. I will bet the best performing DME’s and HME’s almost always are those homecare medical provide...