Tag: National Home Infusion Association (NHIA)
Greg LoPresti to chair NHIA board of directors
April 21, 2025HME News Staff
ALEXANDRIA, Va. —The National Home Infusion Association (NHIA) is pleased to announce that Greg LoPresti, CEO Upstate HomeCare has been named chair of its board of directors. LoPresti and the full 2025-2026 Board of Directors were installed at the NHIA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. earlier this month. John Rademacher, CEO of Option Care Health, who completed his term as board chair, remains on the executive committee as past chair. “We welcome Greg’s leadership...
In brief: Owens & Minor invests in DT, Samsung partners with Stanford, Alabama fights PBMs
April 11, 2025HME News Staff
RICHMOND, Va. – Owens & Minor expects to achieve greater efficiencies for its Products & Healthcare Services business and improved customer service with new investments in technology, automation and analytics.
Initial roll out will focus on two new Owens & Minor distribution centers in West Virginia and South Dakota.
“Over the past two years, our P&HS teammates have worked creatively and diligently to identify areas where technology investments, operational upgrades...
NHIA conference wraps up
April 9, 2025HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – The National Home Infusion Association says its annual conference, March 29-April 2, saw increased attendance and 150 companies participating in its expo. Highlights and developments from the conference include:
The first-ever Infusion Suite Experience, which led more than 350 attendees through six stations in a simulated infusion suite on the show floor. This interactive learning opportunity asked attendees to identify deficiencies and then reviewed the applicable...
NHIA welcomes two new board members
April 3, 2025HME News Staff
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The National Home Infusion Association has added two new companies to its 2024-2025 board of directors: Pentec Health and Vital Care. Pentec Health, a national provider specializing in renal nutrition and intrathecal home infusion with plans to expand the home infusion market, will be represented by Matthew Deans, CEO. Vital Care, a national provider with 135 active home infusion pharmacy and ambulatory infusion suites and a rapidly expanding franchised provider with 42 more...
In brief: Aetna pauses CPAP change, FDA warns Dexcom, Owens & Minor launches offering
March 28, 2025HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – Aetna has put a proposed change on hold for review after AAHomecare asked the insurer to reconsider using certain adherence codes that can only be billed by clinicians not DME providers.
The proposed change, announced in January, stated: “Beginning April 1, 2025, we’ll no longer reimburse the CPAP device or the supplies unless adherence to positive airway pressure therapy is documented using adherence codes G8851, G8854 and G8855 on the claim.”
“On...
NHIA announces innovation finalists
March 26, 2025HME News Staff
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The National Home Infusion Association has announced the finalists for its 2025 Exhibitor Innovation Award, which recognizes groundbreaking products or services that advance the home and alternate site infusion industry. The finalists are:
Avoset by Eitan Medical – an ambulatory infusion system to leverage Bluetooth and NFC communication to support programming via a PC-based programming tool.
Compounding360 CEMS API by Pharmacy...
NHIA annual conference: Deep dives, immersive experience and insider view
February 21, 2025HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – Organizers of this year’s National Home Infusion Association Conference have created an event with a diverse array of educational sessions packaged for busy health care providers, says COO Jennifer Charron.
Over the past two years, the association has focused on submitted topic ideas, reflecting the interests of members and attendees. This year, across five tracks there are dozens of sessions on everything from AI to new drug launches to hybrid work environments.
“There's...
Stakeholders work on new home infusion bill
January 31, 2025Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
WASHINGTON – Stakeholders, with feedback in hand from the Congressional Budget Office, are working with lawmakers from both sides of the aisle to modify previous bills to improve Medicare’s home infusion benefit.
Among the potential changes in play: Folding in payment for supplies with the services payment, says Connie Sullivan, president of the National Home Infusion Association.
“That eliminates an extra payment, but it also structures the benefit more comparably...
NHIA seeks board members
December 31, 2024HME News Staff
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – The National Home Infusion Association is accepting applications for members of its board of directors. Board members serve three-year terms as representatives for their NHIA member organization. Seats are open only to provider members and are assigned at the organization level. Seats are currently available for one national provider (multi-site organization with 20 or more locations), one hospital provider and two at-large providers (any type). Companies that are interested...
In brief: Reimbursement relief, MA guardrails, Numotion pilot
December 6, 2024HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – More than 30 leading patient advocacy organizations have weighed in with congressional leadership to support including provisions from H.R. 5555 and S. 1294 in any legislative package that moves before the end of the year, AAHomecare reports.
In a Dec. 2 letter from the ITEM Coalition, the groups assert that the expiration of 75/25 blended Medicare reimbursement rates on Jan. 1, 2024, has resulted in a “crushing blow to DMEPOS suppliers and providers, threatening...