The Infusion Nurses Society

Having INS standards of best practices in infusion therapy fresh on the minds of staff and evident in their practice may have never been more of a priority to hospital employers than now. As of October 2008, under a new rule adopted by the centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), treatment for vascular catheter associated infection when submitted as a patient's secondary diagnosis will no longer be paid for by CMS. Policy Strategists, LLC helped craft a webinar series for hospital associates across the country to review this new federal policy and promote purchase and use of the INS standards, as a tool to prevent these infections.