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OCTOBER 11, 2019

Want Home Infusion Help? Look to the Hill

‘Any willing provider’ laws, other legislative wins can be had via lobbying and grassroots advocacy

By Karen Blum

Orlando, Fla.—Leaders at ARJ Infusion Services in Lenexa, Kan., didn’t set out to be involved in government affairs. But three years ago, a patient called to say he received a letter from their Medicaid managed care organization (MCO) stating that within 30 days, all of his specialty prescriptions and infused drugs would have to go through that MCO’s in-house specialty pharmacy.

With ARJ servicing approximately 80% of the state’s hemophilia Medicaid business,