Lower cost, heavier lift: The reality of home infusion

Medicare and commercial payers are steering infusion toward lower-cost settings, including patients’ homes, oncology and pharmacy leaders at five health systems told Becker’s. But a lower-cost site is not a lower-effort one. To deliver infusion safely at home, health systems need oncology-trained nurses, sterile compounding, around-the-clock pharmacy support, caregiver education and a plan to escalate […] The post Lower cost, heavier lift: The reality of home infusion appeared...