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The six-month freeze on new DMEPOS supplier enrollment ended August 27 without an extension. For providers frozen out and patients in thin-network areas, the ceiling is gone — but the queue is not the moratorium.
Hike Medical, an AI platform serving orthotics, prosthetics, DME, and podiatry, disclosed $22.5 million in combined seed and Series A funding. The more useful question is what problem that capital is being paid to solve — and what it does not resolve for practitioners or patients.
An NIH predoctoral fellowship at NAU targets flexible ankle-foot orthosis design for children with cerebral palsy. The fellowship is a training grant, not a project grant — this is what that distinction means, and why the AFO design problem for this population is not yet solved.
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