World Class Health Launches Infusion Care, Bringing Specialty Drug Treatments Home and Cutting Employer Costs by Roughly 46%

Employees on over 270 specialty infusions covering 95% of commercial spend can now be treated at home, on their own schedule and at no additional cost, while their employer pays a fraction of hospital prices.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- World Class Health (WCH), the AI-native Specialty Care Centers of Excellence platform for self-insured employers, health plans and third-party administrators, today announced its expansion into specialty infusion, where site of care drives most of the cost. WCH is the first specialty care platform to bring surgery, imaging and infusion together under a single clinical team.

Specialty drugs account for roughly half of all pharmacy spend while being used by about 2% of patients, and gross specialty costs per member are projected to rise another 32% by 2028. The same drug can cost several times more in a hospital outpatient suite than in a member's home, at an identical standard of care. Most members are referred directly into a hospital infusion chair, where a single treatment can consume up to six hours of a workday, and are never told the therapy is available at home on an evening or a weekend.

The WCH care team identifies eligible members from claims and prior authorization data, confirms each member's out-of-pocket cost before treatment is scheduled, and transitions care to a clinically appropriate home or suite setting. The network delivers home infusion in all 50 states and includes hundreds of infusion suites for members whose therapy or preference calls for a facility. Both settings offer evening and weekend appointments, and members can often keep working during a home infusion.

"Specialty infusion is one of the many healthcare purchases where members are flying blind on both their options and their cost," said Sid Nambiar, Chief Executive Officer of World Class Health. "A member who needs an infusion calls our team, gets the same treatment at home on their own schedule, and pays nothing, while their employer pays a fraction of the hospital price."

Infusion therapy is a logistics project for most members. It requires finding an in-network infusion suite, scheduling visits during working hours, keeping prior authorizations current, and updating the prescribing physician after each treatment. Each step is a place therapy can stall.

A dedicated Nurse Navigator, one of the licensed nurses who manage every WCH case, owns the full course of therapy: site selection, scheduling, re-supply, re-authorization, and delivery of results to the prescribing physician. The member's only responsibility is to show up for treatment.

"When you take the friction out, members stay on therapy and get treated at home instead of losing a workday in a hospital chair," Nambiar added. "That is better for them clinically and cheaper for the employer paying the bill."

WCH eliminates buy-and-bill margin by moving treatment out of the hospital and into the home or a lower-cost suite. Savings average roughly 46% against commercial hospital outpatient benchmarks, or $30,000 to $50,000 a year for each patient moved. Each case is measured against the member's own prior treatment cost where a claim exists, and against the published outpatient benchmark for the member's market where one does not, so employers and their advisors can audit every case.

Infusion is available now to WCH clients and their benefits advisors. Contracts are expandable by service line, so employers already working with WCH on surgery or imaging can activate infusion without a new agreement.

The platform covers orthopedics, spine, cardiac, bariatric surgery, general surgery, gynecologic surgery, imaging and infusions.

About World Class Health

World Class Health is the largest AI-native cost containment lever for self-insured employers. It is the only fully transparent, exclusively medically led specialty care centers of excellence platform on the market. The company discloses exactly what a provider charges and the benchmark against which savings are calculated, so employers know precisely what they are paying and why. Every case is governed by a clinical team, with licensed nurses serving as dedicated Nurse Navigators from eligibility through recovery. The platform uses predictive intelligence to identify employees likely to need high-cost specialty care before a claim is filed and to confirm that the care is appropriate, routing them to the right provider, at the right site, at a price their employer can verify. Learn more at worldclasshealth.com.

Sources

Specialty share of pharmacy spend and utilization: AMCP 2026 Spotlights New Era for Specialty Drug Market, The American Journal of Managed Care, April 2026. Projected growth in gross specialty cost per member: 2026 Artemetrx State of Specialty Spend and Trend Report, Pharmaceutical Strategies Group, July 2026.

SOURCE World Class Health