As change and uncertainty continue to shape the healthcare industry, infusion centers and their leaders must continuously seek opportunities to champion the high-quality care they provide to their patients. As government, payor, and provider stakeholders seek to identify and promote high quality and cost-effective care settings, it is imperative...
The following post has been provided by NICA Industry Partner, Cardinal Health. Written by: Sonia T. Oskouei, PharmD, BCMAS, DPLA Vice President of Biosimilars, Cardinal Health Biologics are the fastest growing class of drugs in the United States; they bring innovative, life-changing treatments to patients with cancer and...
Written by Dan McCarty, Chief Executive Officer at Infusion for Health Forgive me while I state some obvious realities about the market we’ve chosen to work in: Surviving as an independent medical provider in today’s environment is difficult. The fact of the matter is that regulations continue to change...
How Hard is it for Infusion Centers to Handle their Own Billing? I get this question a lot, and the answer is really complex. There are so many intricacies in the world of infusion billing, and the thought process might not always seem logical. We face several steps to...
Written by Angie Baker and Stef Parks, Leaders in Patient Access and Reimbursement As many drug manufacturers continue to develop new and innovative therapies for multiple disease states, we continue to see an evolution in the system through which payers (insurance companies/PBMs) use to process and pay claims. Copay...
Written by Charlie Schadewald-President and CEO, Wasatch Infusion Wasatch Infusion has been serving the needs of Utah patients for over 10 years, and will soon have five locations. Our growth is attributed to great people, and I’d like to share with you some of our successes and failures in...
“Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories.” — Roger C. Schank, Ph.D., cognitive psychologist Anyone who has worked in healthcare or been a patient—so, everyone—has likely had a frustrating experience trying to coordinate access to care. These experiences leave...