Electromedical Products International Inc. (EPI) Alpha-Stim AID technology is finally being made available by the NHS in the U.K. to treat patients with anxiety some two years after the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) said there was not enough good-quality evidence to support the case for routine adoption.
The U.S. CMS posted a draft rule for home health payments for calendar year 2024, but the agency is not out of the woods yet with the established rule for CY 2023. The National Association for Homecare & Hospice (NAHC) announced July 6 that it has filed a lawsuit in the District Court for the District of Columbia seeking a reversal of rate cuts imposed by the agency for 2023, the results of which could spill over into the current round of rulemaking for home health payments.
Resmed Inc. has acquired Somnoware Inc., a privately held developer of respiratory care diagnostics software, for an undisclosed price. The deal is Resmed’s third software acquisition in the past year, having snapped up German software-as-a-service (SaaS) maker Medifox Dan GmbH for $1 billion in June 2022 and Mementor GmbH last August.
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