Laurie Watanabe is the Editor in Chief at Mobility Management. She specializes in health and wellness, healthcare technology, and patient care, with a keen focus on digital health and telehealth. Laurie’s insights and expertise are featured in notable publications such as HME Business and NewsBreak.
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Laurie Watanabe's coverage predominantly revolves around healthcare, mobility management, and assistive technology. She primarily features press releases and private sector announcements within these sectors.
Given the nature of her articles, Laurie is likely to be interested in news related to innovations in mobility management technologies, updates on wheelchair design or regulations, advancements in healthcare practices or policies relating to assistive technology.
For effective outreach, consider providing new developments or product launches within the mobility management industry or any breakthroughs regarding Medicare policies that impact access to assistive technologies. Additionally, insights into business trends within the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries may also capture her interest.
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By: Laurie Watanabe
Innovation is the lifeblood of the durable medical equipment industry. It’s not technology for technology’s sake — it’s improving the outcomes, quality of life, inclusion and everyday abilities for patients across the country. Here’s your chance to directly recognize innovations you think are moving the industry — and most importantly, its patients — forward. Voting…
By: Laurie Watanabe
MatrixCare is now an independent company with a new CEO. In a Sept. 1 announcement, Frazier Healthcare said it acquired MatrixCare from Resmed, and appointed Jonathan Lujan to take over as MatrixCare’s CEO. The announcement described MatrixCare as a leading provider of cloud-based electronic health record (EHR) and revenue cycle management (RCM) solutions for out-of-hospital…
From a home medical equipment insider’s perspective, 2026 has been a year largely driven by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) ongoing priority of curbing fraud, waste and abuse. That focus led to February’s six-month moratorium on enrolling new durable medical equipment (DME) suppliers, as well as CMS’s rollout to restart Medicare competitive…
By: Laurie Watanabe
by Cheelcare (TSXV: CHER) has reported earnings for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ending April 30, 2026.
By: Laurie Watanabe
Medicare claims for ultralightweight manual wheelchairs (HCPCS code K0005) with dates of service of Oct. 28 or later will need to go through the prior authorization process.
By: Laurie Watanabe
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is expanding the set of HCPCS codes subject to Medicare prior authorization. Claims with dates of service of Oct. 28 or later will need to go through the prior authorization process if they include any of the eight newly include codes. The July 30 edition of the…
By: Laurie Watanabe
Editor’s Note: In part 1 of our mergers and acquisitions (M&A) coverage from the August 26-28 HME Business/Home Health Care News FUTURE conference in Austin, Texas, we asked three subject-matter experts how attractive home-based healthcare, including home medical equipment companies, are to investors. As chief operating officer of franchise operations at A Place at Home,…
By: Laurie Watanabe
The National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) has appointed Sara Roszak to its newly created position of senior vice president of the office of the CEO. In an Aug. 26 announcement, the NCPA said Roszak’s responsibilities “will include strategic execution of association-wide initiatives in conjunction with others on the executive leadership team; CEO-level strategic support and…
By: Laurie Watanabe
From a functional perspective, what does the future of wheelchair seating look like? And what functional gains do seating clinicians most want to see?
By: Laurie Watanabe
A neurotechnology company has announced it achieved real-time speech and text communication with its Connexus brain-computer interface (BCI) implanted device.
