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Originally featured in “VGM Playbook: Forecasting 2021” by VGM & Associates, vice president of Essentially Women, Nikki Jensen, discusses how telehealth will most likely continue to be used in the women's health industry post-pandemic. You can access the full playbook here.  The past year has been hard. There was no guidebook to reference, and no amount of Google searching could have predicted the entirety of what 2020 would bring. This past year has also introduced us to

This year, Focus Conference is featuring both live and on-demand sessions. But what does that mean? If you can't make all the live sessions work with your schedule, can you watch them later? Yes, you can! Flexibility is one of the main advantages of this year's virtual conference. Nikki Jensen, VP of Essentially Women, recently sat down to answer some questions and give you the details on how Focus Conference will work this year. Your Focus Conference registration includes the

We are excited to announce that the Focus Conference education schedule has been launched! Our online platform allows us to provide you more education sessions than ever before, all for one low rate of $75. We have an exciting line-up of 8 live and 19 on-demand courses where attendees can receive up to 5 Scientific and 22 Business continuing education credits from ABC and BOC. Please refer to the listing of speakers and sessions for CEU value per course.  An online conference may

October was Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and we celebrated by hosting a podcast and interviewing Lori Miller, manager at Naturally Yours, an Essentially Women member in Illinois, as well as Jamie Lee, who is not only a breast cancer survivor but a business owner, a model who has walked the runway, and a force to be reckoned with. We wanted to highlight the strong, amazing women who impact this industry every day and who have not only conquered breast cancer, but have dominated it. You can listen

An interview with Tony Santangelo, Updox and Eric Mongeau, Aeroflow In February 2020, telehealth wasn’t exactly what you’d call a buzzword. The COVID-19 pandemic has made the HME and Respiratory industries adapt to a new way of doing business. Many parts of the country had shelter-in-place orders and many of our businesses shifted staff from the office to home environments, when possible. Understandably so, patients were hesitant to visit healthcare providers during the onset of the

If you’re a mastectomy fitter, you’ve probably been asked by one of your clients about lymphedema and when a patient should see their doctor about a swollen arm or limb. Did you know that lymphedema can be prevented or the severity lessened? ImpediMed has recently introduced a new lymphedema diagnostic test that can help detect lymphedema even before patients feel any signs or symptoms. Healthcare providers can measure a person’s L-Dex score using the SOZO device allowing for

Have you heard? Essentially Women will be hosting our annual conference in 2021 virtually. Focus: The EW [Virtual] Conference will hold live sessions Jan. 25 – 28, 2021 and on-demand sessions Jan. 29 – Feb. 28, 2021. “We made the tough decision to go virtual this year,” said Nikki Jensen, VP of Essentially Women. “We would much prefer to meet in-person, but due to COVID-19, we knew it would be in the best interest of all participants if this year’s conference

In enacting the CARES Act, Congress did not specifically address the taxation of the Relief Payments. Although the IRS’s position is that its FAQ guidance is not citable as legal authority, it seems clear that the IRS expects taxpayers to rely on these FAQs and other recently issued FAQs to meet their federal income tax obligations during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has frequently updated its Relief Payments FAQs since April

The deadline to apply for the HHS Provider Relief Fund for Medicaid/CHIP providers who did not receive any relief payments during the Medicare-based General Distribution has been extended until September 13th, 2020. Providers who have been adversely impacted by COVID-19, meet all of the other eligibility requirements, and can agree to the terms and conditions associated with the program are encouraged to apply for this relief fund. Originally, the application deadline was August 28th. Click here

There have been a few changes to the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) since April. In our recent Town Hall Webinar, Craig Douglas went over this program in detail. The application window for this program was closed for the second time on August 8th. Watch the Recording      Slide Deck To refresh your memory, the PPP has a max loan size equivalent to 2.5 times the employer’s average monthly payroll, up to $10 million. The PPP loans have an interest rate of 1%.