1.   Coram provides home infusion services and contracts for other health-care services such as nursing care and durable medical equipment.

2.   He added that he also will be interested in producers spending on durable equipment, hoping to see it stabilize.

3.   In addition to doctor visits, Medicare part B covers laboratory tests, durable medical equipment such as wheelchairs and oxygen equipment and outpatient hospital visits.

4.   Major makers of durable medical equipment include Invacare Corp. and Sunrise Medical Inc.

5.   Providers of home health care, skilled nursing, laboratory services, durable medical equipment and doctors would see projected growth in their Medicare payments trimmed and capped.

6.   The effort is focused on abuses in home health care, nursing home care and durable medical equipment.

7.   The government crackdown on health-care fraud by durable medical equipment suppliers seeks to weed out fly-by-night providers of wheelchairs and walkers and other equipment.

8.   The secretary would also have authority to set up pilot projects to make suppliers of durable medical equipment bid to treat Medicare patients.

9.   Boeing says it closes the gap by offering more durable equipment, cheaper replacement parts and access to bulk fuel purchases.

10.   Gross capital formation is composed largely of fixed capital investments in construction, durable equipment, breeding stock and orchard development.