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Medicare and Medicaid
NHIA Endorses Legislation to Give Medicare Beneficiaries Access to Home Infusion Therapy
June 18th, 2007
A new bill would close a glaring and unintended gap in Medicare drug coverage that is affecting the sickest, most vulnerable patients. H.R. 2567, "The Medicare Home Infusion Therapy Coverage Act of 2007," which was introduced on June 5 by Representatives Eliot Engel (D-NY), Kay Granger (R-TX), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Chip Pickering (R-MS), Randy Kuhl (R-NY), and John Tierney (D-MA) is being hailed by the National Home Infusion Association (NHIA). Medicare patients with cancer, serious infections, congestive heart failure, and other life-threatening ailments often require specialized medications that are delivered intravenously. New legislation enables this to be done in...
Source: Managed Care Weekly Digest (2007-06-18)
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