NATURE OF BUSINESS	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2013
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]
Nature of Business	NATURE OF BUSINESS Corporate Organization and Business BioScrip, Inc. and subsidiaries (the “Company” or “BioScrip”) is a national provider of home infusion services, home care services and pharmacy benefit management ("PBM") services that partners with patients, physicians, hospitals, home health agencies, healthcare payors and pharmaceutical manufacturers to provide clinical management solutions and deliver cost-effective access to prescription medications and home health services. The Company's services are designed to improve clinical outcomes for patients with chronic and acute healthcare conditions while controlling overall healthcare costs. The Company's platform provides broad service capabilities and the ability to deliver clinical management services that offer patients a high-touch, community-based and home-based care environment. The Company's core services are provided in coordination with, and under the direction of, the patient's physician. The Company's multidisciplinary team of clinicians, including pharmacists, nurses, respiratory therapists and physical therapists, work with the physician to develop a plan of care suited to the patient's specific needs. Whether in the home, physician's office, ambulatory infusion center or other alternate sites of care, the Company provides products, services and condition-specific clinical management programs tailored to improve the care of individuals with complex health conditions such as gastrointestinal abnormalities, infectious diseases, cancer, multiple sclerosis, organ transplants, bleeding disorders, immune deficiencies and heart failure. The Company has three operating and reportable segments, "Infusion Services", "Home Health Services" and "PBM Services". These operating and reportable segments reflect how the Company's chief operating decision maker reviews the Company's results in terms of allocating resources and assessing performance. On February 1, 2014, the Company entered into a Stock Purchase Agreement with LHC Group, Inc. and certain of its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Buyers”) wherein the Buyers have agreed to acquire substantially all of the entities and assets that make up the Company’s Home Health Services segment for a total cash purchase price of approximately $60.0 million, subject to a net working capital adjustment. The closing on this transaction is expected to occur on March 31, 2014 (see Note 17 - Subsequent Events). Basis of Presentation The Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements have been prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”). Reclassifications Certain prior period amounts have been reclassified to conform to the current year presentation. Such reclassifications had no material effect on our previously reported Consolidated Financial Statements.

NATURE OF BUSINESS

Corporate Organization and Business

BioScrip, Inc. and subsidiaries (the “Company” or “BioScrip”) is a national provider of home infusion services, home care services and pharmacy benefit management ("PBM") services that partners with patients, physicians, hospitals, home health agencies, healthcare payors and pharmaceutical manufacturers to provide clinical management solutions and deliver cost-effective access to prescription medications and home health services. The Company's services are designed to improve clinical outcomes for patients with chronic and acute healthcare conditions while controlling overall healthcare costs.

The Company's platform provides broad service capabilities and the ability to deliver clinical management services that offer patients a high-touch, community-based and home-based care environment. The Company's core services are provided in coordination with, and under the direction of, the patient's physician. The Company's multidisciplinary team of clinicians, including pharmacists, nurses, respiratory therapists and physical therapists, work with the physician to develop a plan of care suited to the patient's specific needs. Whether in the home, physician's office, ambulatory infusion center or other alternate sites of care, the Company provides products, services and condition-specific clinical management programs tailored to improve the care of individuals with complex health conditions such as gastrointestinal abnormalities, infectious diseases, cancer, multiple sclerosis, organ transplants, bleeding disorders, immune deficiencies and heart failure.

The Company has three operating and reportable segments, "Infusion Services", "Home Health Services" and "PBM Services". These operating and reportable segments reflect how the Company's chief operating decision maker reviews the Company's results in terms of allocating resources and assessing performance.

On February 1, 2014, the Company entered into a Stock Purchase Agreement with LHC Group, Inc. and certain of its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Buyers”) wherein the Buyers have agreed to acquire substantially all of the entities and assets that make up the Company’s Home Health Services segment for a total cash purchase price of approximately $60.0 million, subject to a net working capital adjustment. The closing on this transaction is expected to occur on March 31, 2014 (see Note 17 - Subsequent Events).

Basis of Presentation

The Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements have been prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”).

Reclassifications

Certain prior period amounts have been reclassified to conform to the current year presentation. Such reclassifications had no material effect on our previously reported Consolidated Financial Statements.