Tag: Home infusion benefit
NHIA pushes home infusion bills in DC
November 10, 2025HME News Staff
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Members of the National Home Infusion Association (NHIA) on Nov. 6 participated in more than 130 meetings with members of Congress and their staff to advocate for a fix to the Medicare home infusion benefit.
NHIA members representing provider and supplier companies, along with patients who depend on home infusion services, participated in the event to share their experiences and discuss the critical need to modernize Medicare coverage...
Re-introduced legislation seeks to modernize home infusion benefit
March 17, 2025HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – Members of the House of Representatives and the Senate have re-introduced legislation that would create a complete home infusion benefit for Medicare beneficiaries with conditions that require an infusion pump.
The “Preserving Patient Access to Home Infusion Act” would:
Provide technical clarifications that would remove the physical presence requirement, ensuring payment regardless of whether a health care professional is present in the patient’s...
Vizient urges CMS to reconsider home infusion benefit
November 8, 2018HME News Staff
IRVING, Texas - Vizient, a member-driven health care performance improvement company and its subsidiary Provista, a supply chain partner for non-acute healthcare delivery organizations, have urged CMS to reconsider its “very narrow interpretation of the new Medicare home infusion benefit. The benefit was finalized in the recently released Home Health Prospective Payment System final rule for 2019. The rule will limit reimbursement for home infusion services to only the day on which the services...