How a ‘Christmas miracle’ became a nightmare for heart failure patients

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25 April 2017 - Congress inadvertently reduced funding for home infusion patients, leaving many with a bleak future.

As a health care provider, one of the more rewarding (and frustrating) things I do is hack through jungles of regulation and insurance complexity to provide an easier path for some very sick patients.

Unfortunately, a crisis is looming in my space — home infusion therapy — due to a law passed in December that is having brutal unintended consequences. It’s creating a thicket of life-and-death problems for thousands of patients, and I’m not sure we are breaking through the bureaucracy in time for them.

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