Tag: Medicare gap
Video drives home infusion message
March 24, 2010Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The National Home Infusion Association (NHIA) recently donned a filmmaker's cap to bring life to its message.
"Act Now--Resolve the Medicare Home Infusion Coverage Gap" features three vignettes that dramatize the plight of seniors who can't be treated at home because Medicare pays only for home infusion drugs, not related services and supplies.
In the first, a patient who must remain institutionalized during his six-week treatment learns that his wife, left on her own, forgets...
Video drives home infusion message
September 30, 2009Theresa Flaherty, Managing Editor
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The National Home Infusion Association (NHIA) recently donned a filmmaker's cap to bring life to its message.
"Act Now--Resolve the Medicare Home Infusion Coverage Gap" features three vignettes that dramatize the plight of seniors who can't be treated at home because Medicare pays only for home infusion drugs, not related services and supplies.
In the first, a patient who must remain institutionalized during his six-week treatment learns that his wife, left on her own, forgets...