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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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Small but Mighty: 5 Special Considerations for Pediatric Rheumatology Infusion Patients

By |March 14th, 2024|Categories: Blog, Infusion Facilities, Infusion Innovation, Infusion Operations, Inventory Strategies|Tags: , , , |

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 discusses [...]

5 Tips for Embracing Technology and Tech-Enabled Services to Improve Affordability for Infusion Patients

By |March 11th, 2024|Categories: Blog, Infusion Facilities, Infusion Innovation, Infusion Operations, Inventory Strategies|Tags: , , , |

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

By |February 29th, 2024|Categories: Blog, Infusion Facilities, Infusion Innovation, Infusion Operations, Inventory Strategies|Tags: , , , |

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 

By |January 8th, 2024|Categories: Blog, Infusion Facilities, Infusion Innovation, Infusion Operations, Inventory Strategies|Tags: , , , |

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

By |December 1st, 2023|Categories: Blog, Infusion Billing, Infusion Facilities, Infusion Innovation, Infusion Operations, Inventory Strategies|Tags: , , , |

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

By |November 30th, 2023|Categories: Blog, Infusion Facilities, Infusion Innovation, Infusion Operations, Inventory Strategies|Tags: , , , |

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

By |September 18th, 2023|Categories: Blog, Infusion Facilities, Infusion Innovation, Infusion Operations, Inventory Strategies|Tags: , , , |

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

By |August 16th, 2023|Categories: Blog, Infusion Facilities, Infusion Innovation, Infusion Operations, Inventory Strategies|Tags: , , , |

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

By |August 7th, 2023|Categories: Blog, Infusion Advocacy, Infusion Facilities, Infusion Innovation, Infusion Nursing, Infusion Operations, Inventory Strategies|Tags: , , , |

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

By |June 7th, 2023|Categories: Blog, Infusion Facilities, Infusion Innovation, Infusion Operations, Inventory Strategies|Tags: , , , |

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 [...]

What’s in a Barcode? Understanding DSCSA and Leveraging Barcodes in Your Operations Today

By |April 18th, 2023|Categories: Blog, Infusion Facilities, Infusion Operations, Inventory Strategies|Tags: , , , |

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

By |February 28th, 2023|Categories: Blog, Infusion Facilities, Infusion Innovation, Starting an Infusion Center|Tags: , , , |

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

By |December 1st, 2022|Categories: Blog, Infusion Innovation, Starting an Infusion Center|Tags: , , , |

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 completed [...]

Building Successful Client Relationships: Client Ambassador Program

By |July 21st, 2022|Categories: Blog, Infusion Innovation, Starting an Infusion Center|Tags: , , |

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

By |July 14th, 2022|Categories: Blog, Infusion Innovation, Starting an Infusion Center|Tags: , , , |

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 – For Patients and Caregivers with RxToolKit

By |May 12th, 2022|Categories: Infusion Innovation, Starting an Infusion Center|Tags: , , , , |

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

By |May 12th, 2022|Categories: Blog, Infusion Nursing, Infusion Operations|Tags: , |

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

By |July 21st, 2021|Categories: Blog, Infusion Billing|Tags: , , |

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

By |June 14th, 2021|Categories: Industry News, Infusion Advocacy|Tags: , , , |

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

By |February 2nd, 2021|Categories: Blog, Infusion Billing, Infusion Operations|Tags: , |

Obstacles to Integrations and How We’re Navigating and Overcoming These at WeInfuse By Paige "PJ" Bigley Client Success, Integrations at WeInfuse If you have started to explore the possibility [...]

Vial Scanning for Medication Administration Tracking

By |January 5th, 2021|Categories: Blog, Infusion Billing, Infusion Operations|Tags: , |

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

By |December 3rd, 2020|Categories: Industry News, Infusion Advocacy|Tags: , |

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

By |November 2nd, 2020|Categories: Blog, Infusion Nursing, Infusion Operations|Tags: , |

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 [...]

Infusion Suites are Adapting in Response to COVID-19

By |July 31st, 2020|Categories: Infusion Facilities, WeInfuse News|Tags: , |

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 [...]

Case Study: WeInfuse & Redox Simplify the Infusion Center Workflow

By |June 25th, 2020|Categories: Blog, Case Study, WeInfuse News|Tags: , |

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

By |April 21st, 2020|Categories: Blog, Infusion Billing, Infusion Nursing|Tags: , |

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

By |April 30th, 2019|Categories: Industry News, Infusion Advocacy, Infusion Facilities, Infusion Innovation|Tags: , |

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

By |April 11th, 2019|Categories: Industry News|Tags: |

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

By |August 8th, 2018|Categories: Infusion Billing|Tags: , |

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!

By |July 23rd, 2018|Categories: Industry News, Inventory Strategies, WeInfuse News|Tags: , , |

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' [...]

We Need Non-Oncology Infusion Centers & Infusion Suites

By |October 26th, 2017|Categories: Infusion Advocacy|Tags: |

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

By |September 6th, 2017|Categories: Infusion Billing|Tags: |

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% [...]

Infusion Center Trends & Takeaways from the 2016 Magellan Rx Report

By |May 23rd, 2017|Categories: Infusion Billing|Tags: , , , |

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 [...]

Infusion Medication Monitoring Considerations

By |April 17th, 2017|Categories: Inventory Strategies|Tags: , , , |

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. While [...]

Buying or Upgrading your Infusion Center Refrigerator

By |December 15th, 2016|Categories: Inventory Strategies|Tags: , , |

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 dollars [...]

“Specialty Pharmacy Only” in your Infusion Center

By |December 6th, 2016|Categories: Inventory Strategies|Tags: , , |

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

By |November 26th, 2016|Categories: Inventory Strategies|Tags: , , |

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

By |November 9th, 2016|Categories: Inventory Strategies|Tags: , , |

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 [...]

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