Ambulatory infusion pumps assigned to oncology practices on consignment basis

With InfuAdvantage, your practice receives all the ambulatory infusion pumps and supplies your patients need - at no cost to your practice.  The amount of pumps we provide is based on patient volume.

Reimbursement is straightforward: your office bills the patient's insurance for chemotherapy infusion (CPT 96416) and refilling/maintenance (CPT 96521), plus the drugs to be infused, as appropriate.  InfuSystem bills the patient's insurance for appropriate use of the pump. All supplies for each pump and treatment cycle are provided at no charge to your practice; they are billed to the patient's insurance.

InfuAdvantage comes with round the clock access to the InfuCare Clinical Support Patient Hotline and InfuSupport Clinician Support Hotline for pump-related inquires.  It also offers practices access to our vast library of patient education materials.

InfuAdvantage eliminates pump-related capital expenses and costs for practices - as well as costs due to breakage, loss or obsolescence. We offer single and dual channel portable electronic ambulatory infusion pumps from every leading manufacturer.  We clean and maintain all pumps and provide appropriate FDA tracking for each device - reducing biomedical and administrative costs for practices.

Advantages over Alternative Care Delivery Partners
Putting a patient on an electronic ambulatory infusion pump is typically done one of three ways - homecare agencies, physician-owned pumps or regional DME providers.  InfuSystem offers advantages to each.

Home care

• Usually more costly for patients and payors
• Treating physician does not provide and cannot bill for appropriate infusion services
• Continuity of care compromised

 Physician-owned Durable Medical Equipment

• Prohibitively costly to purchase and maintain pumps
• Seeking reimbursement for DME consumes administrative resources
• Must pay and staff for 24 hour on-call nursing for pump related issues

 Regional DME Providers

• Limited quantities and selections of pumps
• Fewer insurance contracts covering fewer patient-lives
• Limited clinical support for patients

 

Benefits for Patients, Practices and Payors
InfuAdvantage offers significant clinical, operational, financial and humanistic benefits to patients, practices and payors.

Patients:

• 24/7 pump-related clinical support - peace of mind around the clock
• Continuity of care - consistency, comfort and security
• Lower costs versus homecare - one less burden to overcome
• Insurance advocacy- pursuit of coverage so patients can focus on getting well
• Financial assistance - a real blessing for qualified patients in-need

 Physicians

• Continuity of care - strengthens relationships with patients, improves outcomes
• Low administrative burden - allows staff to focus on delivering care
• Reimbursement for appropriate for professional services - chemotherapy infusion (96416) and refilling/maintenance(96521)
• High levels of patient satisfaction - lower stress leads to better outcomes

 Payors

• Lower costs - relative to homecare or other alternatives
• Improved patient outcomes - with fewer complications and associated costs
• In-network benefits - preferable to plans and patients alike
• High levels of patient satisfaction - a benefit everyone appreciates

 

Reimbursement
Using InfuAdvantage, an oncology practice bills the patient's insurance for clinical services under CPT Codes 96416 and 96521, as appropriate.  Reimbursement rates vary regionally, but a typical scenario for a patient undergoing treatment might look like this: 

 InfuAdvantage Highlights

• 24/7 clinical pump related support for patients relieves your practice of on-call responsibilities and costs
• Quantity of pumps supplied according to patient need - no worries about under or over supplies
• Frequently less costly for patients than homecare
• Next day delivery of pumps and supplies
• No expenses to purchase, maintain or clean/disinfect pumps
• No worries about pumps that are "state-of-the-art" today and in the "state-of-obsolescence" tomorrow
• Single and dual channel portable electronic ambulatory infusion pumps available