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Home Infusion Therapy
Meet CMS requirements with our Home Infusion Therapy Pharmacy Accreditation.
NABP’s Home Infusion Therapy Pharmacy Accreditation meets the newest requirement by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Pharmacies billing CMS for the administration of home infusion therapy services in a patient’s home must hold an accreditation from a CMS-approved accrediting organization to be eligible to bill home infusion therapy services to Medicare Part B.
Home Infusion Therapy Pharmacy Accreditation is a 3-year accreditation for pharmacies currently providing qualifying home infusion therapy services in a patient’s home and getting reimbursed or those that want to start billing and need the framework to begin. While CMS defines multiple skilled professionals as eligible to be qualified home infusion therapy suppliers, NABP focuses solely on licensed pharmacies.
Whether NABP accreditation is new for your business or you are already NABP accredited and are looking to expand your portfolio, our processes simplify your journey toward Home Infusion Therapy Pharmacy Accreditation.
Our Home Infusion Therapy standards include:
Plan of care and the initial assessment
Ongoing review of the care of the patient
Care coordination and communication with health care professionals and overall clinical services performed by the pharmacist
To apply for an NABP accreditation, you must meet and maintain basic eligibility requirements. Review the Home Infusion Therapy Pharmacy Accreditation eligibility requirements below to determine if you are qualified to apply.
- You are a licensed pharmacy operating in the United States, with current, active licenses in good standing, in all jurisdictions where you conduct business (unless licensure is not required by law).
- You predominately serve human patients (defined as veterinary prescription volume less than 20%).
- Your business location cannot be a personal residence.
- You are operational in all activities for at least 30 days, must dispense at least one prescription drug, and have a licensed pharmacist (ie, responsible person/pharmacist-in-charge) in full and actual charge of your pharmacy operations, personnel, and compliance with federal and state regulations, laws and rules regarding the practice of pharmacy.
- You must provide home infusion therapy professional services in a patient’s home.
- Your pharmacy must furnish infusion therapy to individuals with acute or chronic conditions requiring administration of home infusion drugs (§486.505).
- You ensure the safe and effective provision and administration of home infusion therapy on a 7-day-a-week, 24-hour-a-day basis (§486.505).
- Your facility should know the drug approval status for each prescription drug you market, offer, produce, compound, receive, purchase, hold, store, ship/deliver, sell, distribute, and/or dispense. For prescription drugs that have not undergone the FDA drug approval process, self-assess your eligibility for Accreditation within the principles outlined in NABP’s policy titled Unapproved Prescription Drug Evaluation.
Accreditation Standards Overview
The Home Infusion Therapy Pharmacy Accreditation Standards Overview provides a brief introduction to the set of standards a pharmacy must meet to achieve accreditation.
