All You Need To Know about DME Billing Operational Extension

Published: Tue, 05/12/20

The global market for the durable medical equipment (DME) is predicted to reach up to USD 246.6 billion by the year 2026, according to a survey done by the Polaris Market research. This is only due to the benefits that DME products like wheelchair, nebulizers, canes, crutches, walkers etc have on peoples.

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