National Infusion Center Association (NICA)
Marissa Shackleton is the Executive Director at The Elliot Lewis Center, where responsibilities include overseeing operations of a multidisciplinary multiple sclerosis center, supervising 20 employees, and managing 3 providers. Marissa directs all aspects of an infusion center, handling purchasing, reimbursement, authorizations, referrals, billing, and inventory management. Previous experience includes serving as the Senior Clinical Research Coordinator at St. Elizabeth's Medical Center, where Marissa coordinated multiple sclerosis studies and managed clinical trial processes. Additionally, Marissa is an active board member of the Infusion Access Foundation and the ELC Foundation, and serves as an Advisory Committee Member for the National Infusion Center Association. Marissa holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Boston College and a Master of Science in Health Communication from Boston University.
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National Infusion Center Association (NICA)
National Infusion Center (NICA) is a nonprofit trade association and the nation’s voice for non-hospital, community-based infusion providers that offer a safe, more affordable, and more cost-effective alternative to hospital care settings for provider-administered medications. NICA's efforts are focused on delivery channel sustainability and expansion, buy-and-bill protection, maintaining net positive reimbursement, improving treatment adherence, and promoting patient safety and care quality. We support policies that improve drug affordability for beneficiaries, increase price transparency, reduce disparities in quality of care and safety across care settings, and enable care delivery in the highest-quality, lowest-cost care setting. Our goal is to help decision makers understand the value of receiving provider-administered medications in non-hospital care settings and ensure that the community-based infusion center remains a safe, more efficient, and more cost-effective alternative to hospital care settings.