Business & Finance • Mark Ray

Practicing for her people

Robeson County, North Carolina, ranks dead last among the Tar Heel State’s 100 counties for health outcomes and health factors like smoking and obesity. Diabetes, cancer, poverty and a lack of local medical specialists make it hard for the rural county’s...

Make your HME the one-stop shop for patient referrals

As HME reimbursement rates drop, you can help boost revenue by focusing on patients, not just reimbursement codes. Here’s how to make your HME the one-stop-shop for patients needing continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) and continuous glucose...

Selling like hotcakes

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but some mothers are pretty inventive in their own right. Take Penny Clark. Back in 1982, she sent her 8-year-old son, Joel, around the family’s Utah neighborhood selling pancake mix out of a red wagon. This...

How subscription medicine can benefit your patients–and grow your business

One day last fall, a patient texted Vance Lassey, M.D., while he was at church to say she thought she had a urinary tract infection (UTI). After discussing her symptoms and confirming her suspected diagnosis, Lassey, a Holton, KS, physician and president of...

Exploring the intersection of entrepreneurship and mental health challenges at South by Southwest

Creative. Driven. Caffeine-fueled. Those are just some of the adjectives that describe entrepreneurs. But there are others that few people talk about, including depressed, anxious and...