IV Insights Blog
Welcome to IV Insights Infusion Center Blog – a collection of posts, features, and infusion center news from our founders, team, and guest writers from the industry. These posts serve to provide both insights and discussions around how we can all learn to infuse better.
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Get To Know the Infusion Access Foundation
Alicia Barron, LGSW, the Executive Director at the Infusion Access Foundation, introduces IAF and how it is making a difference in the infusion industry. This organization is a community of patients and advocates united [...]
Enteral Nutrition Pathways: Indications and Considerations for Home Infusion
Mary Rose Tanner, MS, RD, LD, Marie Groves, MS, RD, CNSC, LD, and Angie Walston, RD, CNSC, LD from Salt & Lyte Nutrition Solutions discuss the four different pathways for administration of enteral nutrition [...]
National Infusion Center Association Conference (NICA) Recap: Shining Bright in Vegas
Read about WeInfuse and RxToolKit's experiences at the 2024 National Infusion Center Association (NICA) Annual Conference, and see how our teams dazzled and shined in Vegas this year. A full recap is below! [...]
National Home Infusion Association Conference (NHIA) Recap: Bringing the Heat to Austin
Read about WeInfuse and RxToolKit's experiences at the 2024 National Home Infusion Association (NHIA) Conference, and see how our team brought the heat to Austin. A full recap is below! [...]
Small but Mighty: 5 Special Considerations for Pediatric Rheumatology Infusion Patients
Rheum to Grow Founder Dr. Saimun Singla, DO, FAAP, FACR shares her perspective and knowledge on pediatric infusion therapy. Treating pediatric patients can be very different than treating adults. In this article, Dr. Singla [...]
5 Tips for Embracing Technology and Tech-Enabled Services to Improve Affordability for Infusion Patients
Safiya Tisdell, Vice President of Adparo Services at Annexus Health, discusses the importance of financial assistance in ensuring patient affordability and shares advice for infusion centers looking to optimize financial assistance management to improve [...]
Prior Authorization Regulatory Updates and Options for Infusion Providers
SamaCare CEO and Founder Syam Palakurthy discusses how recent regulations leave out physician-administered drugs, but infusion providers still have options to simplify prior authorization. As a technology provider in the [...]
Infusion Alphabet Soup Part 2: The Medication Delivery Platform
What's a Medication Delivery Platform (MDP)? WeInfuse CEO and Co-Founder Bryan Johnson discusses how larger organizations are combining distinct classes of trade and places of service under one parent umbrella with various subsidiaries to provide patient [...]
Infusion Billing From the Perspective of an Infusion Management Provider
Curbside Infusion CEO Sonia Alizzi discusses the different terms commonly used within infusion billing, compares the key differences between management and software companies, and shares her personal experience as a management provider within the [...]
Infusion Alphabet Soup Part 1: Understanding Infusion Delivery Models Today
To help others better understand the infusion delivery models today, WeInfuse CEO and Co-Founder Bryan Johnson discusses the various infusion acronyms as distinct categories (e.g. distinct places of service and distinct classes of trade). [...]
Specialty Pharmacy 101
Former CPR+ CEO & Co-Founder Jeff Johnston shares his knowledge regarding the specialty pharmacy space, and how companies can use this information to better operate and care for their patients. Jeff is also an [...]
Home Infusion Therapy 101
Former CPR+ CEO & Co-Founder Jeff Johnston shares his knowledge regarding the HIT space, and how companies can use this information to better operate and care for their patients. Jeff is also an Infusion [...]
Supporting Patient Care Excellence Through Certification
Supporting Patient Care Excellence Through Certification Pamela Jones McIntyre, MSN, RN, CRNI®, IgCN®, OCN, VA-BC, owner of the Expert Infusion Nurse Consulting, covers the standards of infusion and how they came about in order [...]
Navigating Home Infusion
Former CPR+ Co-Founder & CEO, Jeff Johnston, and WeInfuse Marketing Lead, Brittany Hancz, have collaborated to bring forth insightful advice and tips regarding the home infusion industry. Jeff remains a top expert in the field [...]
What’s in a Barcode? Understanding DSCSA and Leveraging Barcodes in Your Operations Today
What’s in a Barcode? Understanding DSCSA and Leveraging Barcodes in Your Operations Today There's much at stake if you are directly or indirectly responsible for moving medications from the manufacturer to a patient. Bryan [...]
Top 5 Business Development Tactics for New Infusion Centers
Top 5 Business Development Tactics for New Infusion Centers Launching an infusion center in 2023? Amanda Brummitt describes how to build a solid sales and infusion marketing strategy to ensure your success, and how [...]
WeInfuse’s Path to the Million Milestone
WeInfuse's Path to the Million Milestone Brittany Hancz captures the story behind WeInfuse Co-Founders Bryan Johnson and Reece Norris' mission to make a difference in the infusion world. This year, WeInfuse celebrated one million [...]
Building Successful Client Relationships: Client Ambassador Program
The WeInfuse Client Ambassador Program: Building Successful Client Relationships Evan Hebert describes the benefits of the WeInfuse Client Ambassador program in building stronger client relationships, and how it greatly improves the SaaS Customer Support [...]
Making Medication Administration Safer
Making Medication Administration Safer Eric Cropp, RPh, shares his personal story about a medication error that forever changed his life, how he became a patient safety advocate, and ways we can make medication administration [...]
Enhancing Medication Administration Safety with RxToolKit
Enhancing Medication Safety - For Patients and Caregivers with RxToolKit Chuck DiTrapano, RxToolKit Founder & VP of Pharm Ed, joined us on the podcast to offer insight on creating systems to enhance medication safety for [...]
Creating a Frictionless Patient Experience
Creating a Frictionless Patient Experience Chris Cook, Vice President of Specialty Pharmacy and Jay Patel, Founder and CEO of Ivira Health share insights on patient experience, care coordination, revenue cycle management, working with payers, [...]
Aduhelm Billing – Solving the Miscellaneous J Code Mystery
Aduhelm Billing - Solving the Miscellaneous J Code Mystery Jacqui Rose, CEO of Pinnacle Revenue & Bryan Johnson, CEO of WeInfuse talk about Aduhelm Billing with support from Paige Bigley, Client Success, Product & [...]
WeInfuse Unites With NICA Against CMS’s Cuts to Average Sales Price for Cimzia and Orencia
WeInfuse Unites With NICA Against CMS's Cuts to Average Sales Price for Cimzia and Orencia Voicing Our Concerns for the Appropriations Act by Congress WeInfuse joins the National Infusion [...]
Obstacles to Integrations and How We’re Navigating and Overcoming These at WeInfuse
If you have started to explore the possibility of integrating WeInfuse with your EHR, you might have encountered some potential roadblocks along the way. Oftentimes, setting up an integration can come [...]
Integrations & Interoperability at WeInfuse
Integrations & Interoperability at WeInfuse By Paige "PJ" Bigley Client Success, Integrations at WeInfuse Integrations enable data exchange between two separate systems. For WeInfuse, integrations are a tool that [...]
Vial Scanning for Medication Administration Tracking
Vial Scanning for Medication Administration Tracking at the Patient Level By Paige "PJ" Bigley Client Success, Integrations at WeInfuse Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) If you’ve been a [...]
Join WeInfuse + NICA in the fight against Most Favored Nation Model
WeInfuse joins the National Infusion Center Association and infusion providers across the country to voice our deep concern and opposition to the new Most Favored Nation (MFN) rule recently announced by the Center [...]
Infusion Workflow Best Practices in The Holiday Season
With the holiday season quickly approaching, making sure your infusion center workflow is running efficiently and effectively is necessary. Scheduling slip-ups, inventory confusion and rising coronavirus cases only add to the already stressful [...]
Don’t Fall Victim to Dubious Documentation
Don't Fall Victim to Dubious Documentation By Kaitey Morgan RN, BSN, CRNI Director of Quality and Standards NICA As the saying goes: if it wasn’t documented, it wasn’t done. [...]
Infusion Suites are Adapting in Response to COVID-19
Published in INFUSION Magazine | July 31, 2020 | Written by Reece Norris, Sydney McPherson As COVID-19 has forced all medical operations to implement emergency preparedness procedures, optimal scheduling in the infusion center is [...]
WeInfuse & Redox Simplify the Infusion Center Workflow
Published on redoxengine.com | June 25, 2020 | Written by Monika Allen, Redox "Integrating WeInfuse and EHR systems will open many doors for infusion centers. We look forward to providing our clients with more [...]
Track and Trace Your Infusion Medications
What Infusion Providers should know about the Drug Supply Chain Security Act and Track and Trace If you operate your own in-office infusion suite, or stand-alone infusion center, you already know that inventory management [...]
Healthcare Op-ed: Infusion Site of Care Optimization
Site of Care (SOC) Optimization is one of the top proven strategies for reducing the cost of specialty biologic medications. A SOC optimization strategy encourages patients to move from higher-cost settings, like big hospitals and institutions, to lower-cost settings, such as physician’s in-office infusion suites or stand-alone Infusion Centers.
Magellan Rx Management Medical Pharmacy Trend Report 2018 Takeaways
At WeInfuse, we think the annual Magellan Trend Reports are our industry’s manna from heaven. This year’s 2018 report is no different, and it’s full of gold nuggets that prove the provider-based (e.g. physician, NP, and/or PA) Infusion Center is the optimal site of service providing patients quality, convenient and cost-effective care.
NDC Billing for Infusion and Injectable Medications
The NDC billing process is now required by many large commercial payers and state Medicaid plans. More commercial payers will be mandating NDC billing moving forward in order to more accurately identify and reimburse providers for the exact product used for a patient’s treatment. Having the specific NDC of the medication allows payers to avoid some of the guesswork involved for reimbursing using the HCPCS and billing Unit process that we all know and love.
WeInfuse Infusion Center Podcast Series is Live!
Listen to our recently launched WeInfuse Infusion Center Podcast series to hear interviews from infusion suite and Infusion Center industry experts. Learn how some of the leading infusion practices and companies are innovating and thriving in today's' [...]
The Cost of Patient Noncompliance
For the practice-based infusion suites and stand-alone Infusion Centers, keeping patients compliant with their treatment schedules results in better clinical outcomes and improves the financial health of their business models. While treatment compliance is important [...]
Billing Infusion Medications
Next to quantum theory, I would put infusion and infusion billing in a close second place for complexity. I recently published an article around billing for infusion procedures in an attempt to simplify some [...]
The Confusion of Infusion Billing
I have been in and around medical billing for over 15 years in various practices and ambulatory healthcare services, and I would never tell anyone that medical billing is a simple or logical process. However, [...]
Better Infusion Orders Lead to Better Patient Care
As a common guy and macho father of 2 young boys, I tend to have an "instructions optional" attitude about putting together new kid toys and the boxed furniture my beautiful bride brings home [...]
Starting an Infusion Center in Your Practice
Based on overwhelming feedback on our original Blog Post - Considerations for Opening an In-Office Infusion Center, we decided to reboot the original article and re-post it here with some minor edits. We are continuing [...]
Holiday Infusion Medication Shipping Delays
Its the most wonderful time of the year! ...unless you are in charge of ordering infusion medication and medical supplies for your patients. :) This is a courtesy reminder to all of our blog [...]
We Need Non-Oncology Infusion Centers & Infusion Suites
You may find it surprising that there is a $100+ billion dollar healthcare delivery model that you have never heard of. That’s right, “Billion” with a “B”. Unless you or someone you know has [...]
99% is Not Good Enough for In-Office Infusions & Injections
Are you confident that your infusion biller is 99% accurate in capturing the high-dollar medications documented by your infusion nurse? Are your infusion nurses 99% accurate in their treatment documentation? Is your inventory management 99% [...]
The Modern Infusion Nurse
The recipe for making a great nurse has always been knowledge combined with continued experience and a desire to never stop learning. For the modern infusion nurse, the ingredients for this recipe calls for [...]
When Common Infusion Procedures Become Risky
Flushing and locking vascular access devices (VADs) are 2 common procedures performed on patients receiving treatment in infusion centers. Flushing is the act of moving fluids, medications, blood, and blood components out of the [...]
Infusion Center Trends & Takeaways from the 2016 Magellan Rx Report
At WeInfuse, we think the annual Magellan Trend Reports are manna from heaven. This year’s report is no different, and it’s full of gold nuggets that prove the physician / provider-based Infusion Center is the optimal [...]
Take the Confusion Out of Infusion Orders
As nurses, we want it to be correct! It must be clear, concise, comprehensive and complete. There are many new innovative technologies that have evolved over the years to improve both the accuracy and ease [...]
Infusion Medication Monitoring Considerations
I have visited many practices and Infusion Centers that have gone to great lengths to protect their facilities from would be intruders - installing special locks, key fobs, and various alarm and surveillance equipment. [...]
Considerations for Opening an In-Office Infusion Center
If you work in a physician-based practice and have been thinking about opening an in-office infusion center for your patients we wrote this post especially for you. Deciding to open an Infusion Center is not [...]
Is Your Infusion Center Leaking Cash?
In the past few months, I have asked practices and practice managers all over the country to do a simple test to see if their in-office Infusion Centers are leaking money. I ask them [...]
Buying or Upgrading your Infusion Center Refrigerator
When was the last time you did the math on the dollars worth of infusion medication inventory in your practice? If you're like most providers, you likely have 10’s to 100’s of thousands of [...]
“Specialty Pharmacy Only” in your Infusion Center
In previous posts, we have discussed the merits of both Buy&Bill and Specialty Pharmacy inventory strategies for your office Infusion Center. If you missed our previous writings, you should take a moment to read our [...]
Specialty Pharmacy is your friend…sometimes
I have a “like” (never love) and “hate” relationship with Specialty Pharmacies. Likewise, there are infusion providers that wouldn’t accept a Specialty Pharmacy shipment under any condition and others who wouldn’t Buy&Bill a medication if [...]
To Buy&Bill or not to Buy&Bill…it’s a profit question
Rapid changes in commercial medication reimbursements, the uncertainty of Medicare payment policies, and an influx of new biologic and specialty medications have many providers re-thinking their medication inventory strategies in an effort to balance or [...]
We Built THE Infusion Center Application for You
With all the amazing technological advances in healthcare, many medications still require the one-on-one human touch of a skilled nurse to deliver them intravenously to patients. I have been blessed to spend my entire [...]