MHA sponsors home infusion benchmarking program
By HME News Staff
Updated 10:26 AM CST, Tue December 15, 2020
ALEXANDRIA, Va. – Managed Health Care Associates, an alternate site group purchasing organization, will serve as the 2021 sponsor of The National Home Infusion Foundation’s benchmarking program. The goal of the program: to establish national standards for patient satisfaction and clinical outcomes for home and specialty infusion. “Through the NHIF benchmarking initiatives, the industry can advocate effectively for expanding access to home infusion services, validate clinical outcomes, and solidify home infusion as a safe and effective method of care,” said Connie Sullivan, president and CEO of the National Home Infusion Association. NHIF is currently in pilot testing for two new program metrics: status at discharge and 30-day hospital readmission. These metrics will help the industry to better understand the reason patients are discharged from service, as well as the rates of readmission within 30 days of the start of care for patients receiving parenteral nutrition and inotrope therapies, offering a first look at how clinical characteristics impact therapy success rates.
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