Approximately 3.2 million Americans suffering from cancer, heart disease, and other serious or life-threatening diseases benefit from home infusion therapy. As the name suggests, home infusion therapy allows these patients to receive intravenous treatments at home instead of at a hospital. This improves the patient’s quality of life—as well as their health—by reducing their risk of contracting infections from spending too much time in hospitals. Infusion therapy is also more cost effective than hospital-administered treatments, and can be as much as 12 to 24 times cheaper.
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