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NHIA to CMS: Don't 'shortchange' home infusion

October 30, 2018Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor

WASHINGTON - With a final rule not expected until November, industry stakeholders continue to press CMS for changes to provisions related to home infusion.Board members of the National Home Infusion Association and others met with Demitrios Kouzoukas, principal deputy administrator of CMS and director of the Center for Medicare, on Sept. 17 to urge the agency to strike a provision that would require that a nurse be present in the home the day an infusion drug is administered. “To the extent...

Home Infusion Therapy, National Home Infusion Association (NHIA), Sharon Pearce